The Magician

For the first time in Russian— the newest novel by one of the leading British prose writers Colm Tóibín, an multiple Booker Prize finalist. “The Magician” is the literary biography of the famous novelist Thomas Mann, author of “Buddenbrooks” and “The Magic Mountain,” “Death in Venice,” and “Doctor Faustus,” a Nobel Prize laureate.

This is a family saga spanning more than half a century; it includes childhood in patriarchal Lübeck, youth in bohemian Munich, family happiness, impenetrable secrets of the inner world, World War I, flight from the fascist dictatorship, World War II, and the beginning of the Cold War…

“‘The Magician’ is not just a biography, but a work of art, an emotional summing-up of the century of change, and at the center is a person who tries not to bend his spine, yet forever sways in the winds of these changes” (The Times).