For the first time in Russian - the newest novel by one of the largest British prose writers Colm Toibin, a multiple finalist for the Booker Prize. The Magician is a literary biography of the celebrated novelist Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice and Doctor Faustus. This is a family saga spanning more than half a century; This includes childhood in patriarchal Lübeck, youth in bohemian Munich, family happiness, impenetrable secrets of the inner world, the First World War, and the escape from the fascist dictatorship, and the Second World War, and the beginning of the Cold War... ““The Wizard” - it is not just a biography, but a work of art, an emotional summation of a century of change, and at its center is a man who tries not to bend his back, but is forever wavering in the winds of this change." (The Times).