{"product_id":"colm-toibin-the-magician-w2-2021-hardback","title":"Colm Toibin: The Magician W2 [2021] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e TOP TEN BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Magician\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe would have six children and keep his homosexuality hidden; he was a man forever connected to his family and yet bore witness to the ravages of suicide. He would write some of the greatest works of European literature, and win the Nobel Prize, but would never return to the country that inspired his creativity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough one life, Colm Toibin tells the breathtaking story of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e___________________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'As with everything Colm Toibin sets his masterful hand to, \u003ci\u003eThe Magician\u003c\/i\u003e is a great imaginative achievement -\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eimmensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized'\u003c\/b\u003e - Richard Ford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'No living novelist dramatizes artistic creation as profoundly, as luminously, as Colm Toibin . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ereading him is among the deepest pleasures our literature can offer'\u003c\/b\u003e - Garth Greenwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is not just a whole life in a novel, it's a whole world' - \u003c\/b\u003eKatharina Volckmer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Toibin, Colm","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":54434622374227,"sku":"XE80241004616","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/toibin-colm-colm-toibin-the-magician-w2-2021-hardback-xe80241004616-1251506126.jpg?v=1785353379","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/colm-toibin-the-magician-w2-2021-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}