u003cpu003eu003cbu003eTHE u003ciu003eSUNDAY TIMESu003c/iu003e TOP TEN BESTSELLERu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003eFrom one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003ciu003eThe Magicianu003c/iu003e 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.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e He 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.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Through one life, Colm Tóibín tells the breathtaking story of the twentieth century.u003cbru003e ___________________________________u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003e'As with everything Colm Tóibín sets his masterful hand to, u003ciu003eThe Magicianu003c/iu003e is a great imaginative achievement -u003c/bu003eu003cbu003e-u003c/bu003e u003cbu003eimmensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized'u003c/bu003e - Richard Fordu003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003e'No living novelist dramatizes artistic creation as profoundly, as luminously, as Colm Tóibín . . .u003c/bu003e u003cbu003ereading him is among the deepest pleasures our literature can offer'u003c/bu003e - Garth Greenwellu003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003e'This is not just a whole life in a novel, it's a whole world' -u003c/bu003e Katharina Volckmeru003c/pu003e
