by Ann Patchett · Fourth Estate Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781857028157
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«The Magician's Assistant» is the contemporary novel by Ann Patchett, published by Fourth Estate Ltd in paperback (357 pages, in English).
After the death of the magician Parsifal, his assistant and wife Sabine discovers that the man she thought she knew kept a secret: a false identity and a family he had given up for dead. Parsifal's heirs enter her life and drag her from Los Angeles to Nebraska, where she must unravel his lies and come to terms with her past.
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 1998. Sabine was married to Parsifal only during the last months of his life.
Recommended for book clubs and for readers of contemporary literary fiction, with stories of grief, family and personal reinvention.
Ann Patchett is an American author. In 2002 she received the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel Bel Canto. Patchett's other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars (1992), Taft (1994), The Magician's Assistant (1997), Run (2007), State of Wonder (2011), Commonwealth (2016), The Dutch House (2019), and Tom Lake (2023). The Dutch House was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
