Wizard. Toybin K.

For the first time in Russian, the latest novel of one of the largest British prose writers Kolm Toybin, a repeated finalist of the Buker Prize. “Wizard” is a literary biography of the famous novelist Thomas Mann, the author of “Buddenbrokov” and “Magic Mountain”, “Death in Venice” and “Dr. Faustus”, Nobel Prize laureate. This is a family saga covering for more than half a century; A childhood in the patriarchal love, and youth in Bohemian Munich, and family happiness, and the impenetrable secrets of the inner world, and the First World War, and the flight from the fascist dictatorship, the Second World War, and the beginning of the war of cold... ““ Wizard, “Wizard,“ Wizard " - this is not just a biography, but a work of art, an emotional summing up of a century of change, and in the center of it is a person who is trying not to bend his back, but always hesitates under the winds of these changes" (The Times).