Colm Toybin: Wizard

For the first time in Russian, this is the latest novel by one of the greatest British prose writers, Colm Toybin, a multiple finalist for the Booker Prize. The Magician is a literary biography of famed novelist Thomas Mann, author of The Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice and Doctor Faustus, and Nobel Prize winner. This is a family saga spanning over half a century; childhood in patriarchal Lübeck, and youth in bohemian Munich, and family happiness, and the impenetrable secrets of the inner world, and the First World War, and the flight from the fascist dictatorship, and the Second World War, and the beginning of the Cold War fit here ...

Pages: 544 (offset). Hard cover

Dimensions: 217x146x30 mm