Sorcerer. Davis R. Davis R.

Robertson Davis is the largest Canadian writer, master of plot intricacies and riddles, one of the best storytellers of English -language literature. His “Deptord Trilogy” (“Fifth Character”, “Manticore”, “World of Miracles”) considered the beginning of the “Canadian breakthrough” in world literature. He fell into the short list of Boker (with the novel “What is laid in the bones” from the “Cornish Trilogy”), was awarded the main Canadian literary award-the Governor General, at the end of his life, almost received the Nobel Prize, but even forever remaining Among the candidates, he won the status of a world classic.

“The Sorcerer” - the last novel of the Canadian master and his creative testament is “Davis’s return to the ideal form of the times of the“ Deptord's Trilogy ”and“ What is laid in bones ”(Publishers Weekly), this is a novel that “to the regions is full of topics of music, poetry, beauty, philosophy, death and secret capes of the human soul” (Observer). Here, characters appear not only from Davis’s previous novel “Killing and Unpecolved Spirits”, but even our old acquaintance Dannstan Ramsi from the “Deptord's trilogy”. Here, Doctor of Medicine Jonathan Khalla, nicknamed the sorcerer, because he knows how, in the words of the “English Montean”, Robert Berton, “heal almost any ailments of the body and soul,” the Hobbs's mysterious death, who died in the Church of St. Aidan right near the altar. And this investigation makes the sorcerer remember all his long life, rich in incredible events and amazing meetings...

for the first time in Russian!