The Magician

From the internationally bestselling author of Brooklyn and The Master comes the novel of a lifetime, Colm Toibin's most dazzling and ambitious book yet.

Telling the story of the German writer Thomas Mann from his earliest childhood until his life's end, The Magician is a masterpiece, a profound meditation on creative ambition, civic responsibility, queer desire, and the pull of history. In prose of startling clarity, and staggering psychological depth, Colm Toibin charts one of the great lives of the twentieth century, and, in doing so, holds a mirror up to the complexity of art, politics, and time itself.