Colm Toíbín | The Magician
Recorded: Wed 29 Sep 2021
Duration: 68 mins
Colm Toíbín | The Magician
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‘As with everything Colm Tóibín sets his masterful hand to, The Magician is a great imaginative achievement—immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized’ – Richard Ford
We were delighted to welcome back one of our finest novelists, Colm Tóibín, to present The Magician. Tóibín traces the life of Thomas Mann – a life full of success and yet riddled with contradiction. The book takes us from a provincial German city at the turn of the century, through both world wars, through the lens of the life of a troubled writer struggling with his closeted sexuality and familial complexities.
Through one life, Colm Tóibín tells the breath-taking story of the twentieth century. Colm was in conversation with writer and broadcaster Alex Clark.
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