From the author of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín’s The Magician is a novel of unrequited love, war, exile, and family. The Magician tells the story of a real person from history; Thomas Mann, who finds himself on the wrong side of history during WWI as a cheerleader of the German army but as the second war approaches, Thomas has already anticipated the horrors of the Nazis. Thomas becomes a family man with six children, keeping his sexuality to himself. He will later write great works of fiction and win the Nobel Prize for literature but he would never return to the country that inspired his creativity.