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CATEGORIES:AWCH Calendar
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SUMMARY:Book Club 
LOCATION:Virtual - see extra info for Zoom link
DESCRIPTION:<img style="margin: 10px;" src="images/The_Magician_.png" alt="The Magician
  " width="463" height="688" /><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This month we will be reading
 </p><p></p><p>The Magician by Colm Tóibín</p><p></p><p>a fictionalized biog
 raphy of Thomas Mann written by the great novelist Colm Tobin. From the pub
 lisher Simon and Schuster:</p><p><br />“The Magician&nbsp;opens in a provin
 cial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thoma
 s Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Braz
 ilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic asp
 irations from his father and his homosexual desires from everyone. He is in
 fatuated with one of the richest, most cultured Jewish families in Munich, 
 and marries the daughter Katia. They have six children. On a holiday in Ita
 ly, he longs for a boy he sees on a beach and writes the story&nbsp;Death i
 n Venice. He is the most successful novelist of his time, winner of the Nob
 el Prize in literature, a public man whose private life remains secret. He 
 is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler, whom he underestimates. His
  oldest daughter and son, leaders of Bohemianism and of the anti-Nazi movem
 ent, share lovers. He flees Germany for Switzerland, France and, ultimately
 , America, living first in Princeton and then in Los Angeles.<br /><br />In
  this “exquisitely sensitive” (The Wall Street Journal) novel, Tóibín has c
 rafted “a complex but empathetic portrayal of a writer in a lifelong battle
  against his innermost desires, his family, and the tumultuous times they e
 ndure” (Time), and “you’ll find yourself savoring every page” (Vogue).”&nbs
 p;</p><p>Fiction, 512 pages</p><p></p><p>We hope you can join us for a disc
 ussion of this brilliant novel.&nbsp;</p><p></p><p>Future Book Club Reads (
 for more information see the calendar entry):</p><p>August 17: Buddenbrooks
 : The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Wood. Note:
  we recommend this 1994 translation, which is considered closer to the orig
 inal than the 1924 translation by Helen T. Lowe-Porter.</p><p></p><p>We are
  planning a day trip to Lübeck in late summer to Lübeck, the provincial Ger
 man City where Thomas Mann was born and where his first novel Buddenbrooks 
 takes place. Details forthcoming.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<img style="margin: 10px;" src="https://www.awchamburg.org/images/The_Magic
 ian_.png" alt="The Magician " width="463" height="688" /><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Th
 is month we will be reading</p><p></p><p>The Magician by Colm Tóibín</p><p>
 </p><p>a fictionalized biography of Thomas Mann written by the great noveli
 st Colm Tobin. From the publisher Simon and Schuster:</p><p><br />“The Magi
 cian&nbsp;opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth ce
 ntury, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bou
 nd by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young 
 Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual desi
 res from everyone. He is infatuated with one of the richest, most cultured 
 Jewish families in Munich, and marries the daughter Katia. They have six ch
 ildren. On a holiday in Italy, he longs for a boy he sees on a beach and wr
 ites the story&nbsp;Death in Venice. He is the most successful novelist of 
 his time, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, a public man whose priva
 te life remains secret. He is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler, 
 whom he underestimates. His oldest daughter and son, leaders of Bohemianism
  and of the anti-Nazi movement, share lovers. He flees Germany for Switzerl
 and, France and, ultimately, America, living first in Princeton and then in
  Los Angeles.<br /><br />In this “exquisitely sensitive” (The Wall Street J
 ournal) novel, Tóibín has crafted “a complex but empathetic portrayal of a 
 writer in a lifelong battle against his innermost desires, his family, and 
 the tumultuous times they endure” (Time), and “you’ll find yourself savorin
 g every page” (Vogue).”&nbsp;</p><p>Fiction, 512 pages</p><p></p><p>We hope
  you can join us for a discussion of this brilliant novel.&nbsp;</p><p></p>
 <p>Future Book Club Reads (for more information see the calendar entry):</p
 ><p>August 17: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, transl
 ated by John E. Wood. Note: we recommend this 1994 translation, which is co
 nsidered closer to the original than the 1924 translation by Helen T. Lowe-
 Porter.</p><p></p><p>We are planning a day trip to Lübeck in late summer to
  Lübeck, the provincial German City where Thomas Mann was born and where hi
 s first novel Buddenbrooks takes place. Details forthcoming.</p><p>&nbsp;</
 p>
CONTACT:Carol S. at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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