AWW22 The Magician - Colm Tóibín

Chaired by Caroline Baum


From The Heather Blazing to The Master, Colm Tóibín is acclaimed
for his skill at entering the mind of the writer. In The
Magician, he turns his perspicacious eye to Thomas Mann.
Outwardly genteel, inwardly tormented, cautious yet impatient,
suspicious of the powerful but welcomed in their homes, Colm's
Mann is a writer who withdraws from a world losing its sanity but
finds himself dragged back into the mess of the times. Desire,
exile, family – the themes are ambitious, but in Colm's deft
hands, a superbly crafted epic has emerged.