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The Magician's Wife

Reissued

Brian Moore author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:2nd Feb '12

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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Brian Moore has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Reissued to coincide with the new look for Brian Moore's backlist Six of Brian Moore's novels have been made into films, including The Statement, which starred Michael Caine

By the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Lies of SilenceA mesmerising novel from three-time Booker Prize nominee Brian Moore--_‘A spellbinding storyteller' - Independent‘A tour de force' - New York Times‘Moore is a magician' - LA Times--_France, 1856. Emmeline Lambert is married to an illusionist sent by Napoleon III to persuade the Arabs - poised for holy war and in thrall to charismatic leaders - that France's might and magic are the greater. Emmeline begins to feel like an illusionist herself, when she dazzles the Emperor and then sheds her inhibitions along with flimsy notions of patriotism and propriety in the hot glare of the Algerian sun. Power, politics, religion and love, the court of Napoleon III and the deserts of Algeria combine in this mesmerising novel from a master storyteller.

‘A spellbinding storyteller' * Independent *
‘A tour de force, Moore has left no seams between reality and fiction. Flashing his own sleight of hand, he transforms historical fact into a story both true to its time and relevant to the present day' * New York Times *
‘Combines the pleasure of a thriller with a novel that considers questions of morality and politics, ambition and conscience, the lure of illusion and the magic of truth' * People *
‘Moore is a magician' * LA Times *

ISBN: 9781408827017

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 190g

272 pages