The Wizard

The latest novel by one of the largest British prose writers, Colm Tóibín, a multiple finalist for the Booker Prize. «The Wizard» — is a literary biography of the celebrated novelist Thomas Mann, author of «Buddenbrooks» and «The Magic Mountain»,... «Death in Venice» and «Doctor Faustus», a Nobel Prize winner. It is a family saga that spans more than half a century; it encompasses childhood in patriarchal Lübeck, youth in bohemian Munich, family happiness, and the impenetrable secrets of the inner world, as well as World War I, flight from fascist dictatorship, World War II, and the beginning of the Cold War... «„The Wizard“ — is not just a biography, but a work of art, an emotional summary of a century of change, and at its center is a man who tries not to bend his back, but is forever swayed by the winds of these changes» (The Times).