{"product_id":"the-magician-9781476785080","title":"The Magician","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected as a Notable Book, a Critics' Top Book, and a Top 10 Book of Historical Fiction by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of today's most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWorld War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II, and the Cold War. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eColm Tóibín's magnificent new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual desires from everyone. He is infatuated with one of the richest, most cultured Jewish families in Munich, and marries the daughter Katia. They have six children. On a holiday in Italy, he longs for a boy he sees on a beach and writes the story \u003ci\u003eDeath in Venice\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the most successful novelist of his time, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, a public man whose private life remains secret. He is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler, whom he underestimates. His oldest daughter and son, leaders of Bohemianism and of the anti-Nazi movement, share lovers. He flees Germany for Switzerland, France and, ultimately, America, living first in Princeton and then in Los Angeles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a stunning marriage of research and imagination, Tóibín explores the heart and mind of a writer whose gift is unparalleled and whose life is driven by a need to belong and the anguish of illicit desire. \u003ci\u003eThe Magician\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate, astonishingly complex portrait of Mann, his magnificent and complex wife Katia, and the times in which they lived--the first world war, the rise of Hitler, World War II, the Cold War, and exile. This is a man and a family fiercely engaged by the world, profoundly flawed, and unforgettable. As \u003ci\u003ePeople \u003c\/i\u003emagazine said about \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e, \"It's a delicate, mysterious process, this act of creation, fraught with psychological tension, and Tóibín captures it beautifully.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colm Toibin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 6.22w x 1.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476785080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColm Tóibín is the author of ten novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Costa Book Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Testament of Mary\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e Nora Webster\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39826852872307,"sku":"9781476785080","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_48b45ace-8ced-4b9d-b317-8e424ed44af4.jpg?v=1644556529","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-magician-9781476785080","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}