Robertson Davis is a major Canadian writer, a master of plot intricacies and riddles, one of the best storytellers in English literature. His “Deptford Trilogy” (“The Fifth Character,” “Manticore,” “World of Wonders”) was considered the beginning of the “Canadian breakthrough” in world literature. He was shortlisted for the Booker (with the novel “What’s in the Bones” from the “Cornish Trilogy”), was awarded the main Canadian literary award - the Governor General’s Award, at the end of his life he almost received the Nobel Prize, but even though he remained forever among the candidates, has achieved the status of a world classic. The Sorcerer is the last novel of the Canadian master and his creative testament is “Davies’ return to the ideal form of the times of the Deptford Trilogy and What’s in the Bone” (Publishers Weekly), this is a novel which is “filled to the brim with themes of music, poetry, beauty, philosophy, death and the secret recesses of the human soul” (Observer). Characters appear here not only from Davis's previous novel, Murder and the Restless Spirits, but even our old acquaintance Dunstan Ramsay from the Deptford Trilogy. Here, medical doctor Jonathan Halla - nicknamed the Sorcerer, because he can, in the words of the "English Montaigne" Robert Burton, "cure almost any ailment of the body and soul" - investigates the mysterious death of Father Hobbs, who died in the Church of St. Aidan right at the altar. And this investigation makes the Wizard remember his entire long life, rich in incredible events and amazing meetings... For the first time in Russian!