by Colm Tóibín · AMSTERDAM · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417918675
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«El mag» is Colm Tóibín's biographical novel, published by Amsterdam in paperback (496 pages, in Catalan).
The novel narrates the life of Thomas Mann after leaving Germany in 1933. The author portrays Mann's contradictions: his support for the First World War, the homosexuality he concealed as a father of six, and his abandonment, despite the Nobel Prize, of the homeland that had inspired him. Colm Tóibín interweaves Mann's life with the twentieth century.
Translation by Ferran Ràfols i Gesa. The novel was originally published in English and this Catalan edition belongs to the Novel·la collection from Amsterdam.
Aimed at readers of biographical and historical fiction aged 16 and over, with an interest in twentieth-century Europe and Thomas Mann.
Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet.
