Wizard

The latest romance of one of the largest British prose writers of the 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, childhood in the patriarchal Lubecke fit here, and youth in Bohemian Munich, and family happiness, and impenetrable secrets of the inner world, and the First World War, and the flight from the fascist dictatorship, and the Second World War, and the beginning Cold wars ... “Wizard” 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 tries not to bend his back, but always fluctuates under the winds of these changes ”(The Times)