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£9.99A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year, the sequel to the beloved bestseller, Brooklyn.
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A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year, the sequel to the beloved bestseller, Brooklyn.

A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2024, the sequel to the beloved bestseller, Brooklyn

From the bestselling author of Brooklyn, Colm T?ib?n’s first collection of poetry explores travel, sexuality, religion and family.

‘The Magician’ 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. 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.

‘The Magician’ 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. 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.

In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when she is offered a job in America, she leaves her family to start a new life in Brooklyn, New York.

In pieces that range from the importance of aunts (and the death of parents) in the English 19th century novel to the relationship between fathers and sons in the writing of James Baldwin, Colm TóibÃn illuminates the intimate connections between writers and their families.
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