The Magician's Wife

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The year is 1856. Henri Lambert, the most famous magician in all of Europe, is despatched to war-torn Algéria by Emperor Napoleon III. With his shy, provinciai wife Emmeline in tow, he must use all of the modern artifice at his disposal to demonstrate to the natives that a Christian Frenchman can perform even more astonishing miracles than their own holy men can. Power, politics, failed love and illusion combine in this mesmerizing new növel from a master storyteller. Brian Moore is a writer whose deceptively simple prose, as easy to read as an oyster is to swallow, conceals a serious morál purpose. He holds the reader in suspense, as any good thriller writer must, but his aim is not only to entertain: he wants to stimulate thought by presenting the reader with morál dilemmas. He has few equals among modern writers.' ANTHONY DANIELS, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Moore's writing is precise, his timing as immaculate as that of his magician. He is a bit of an old wizard himself, weaving and... Tovább

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The year is 1856. Henri Lambert, the most famous magician in all of Europe, is despatched to war-torn Algéria by Emperor Napoleon III. With his shy, provinciai wife Emmeline in tow, he must use all of the modern artifice at his disposal to demonstrate to the natives that a Christian Frenchman can perform even more astonishing miracles than their own holy men can. Power, politics, failed love and illusion combine in this mesmerizing new növel from a master storyteller. Brian Moore is a writer whose deceptively simple prose, as easy to read as an oyster is to swallow, conceals a serious morál purpose. He holds the reader in suspense, as any good thriller writer must, but his aim is not only to entertain: he wants to stimulate thought by presenting the reader with morál dilemmas. He has few equals among modern writers.' ANTHONY DANIELS, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Moore's writing is precise, his timing as immaculate as that of his magician. He is a bit of an old wizard himself, weaving and spinning tales to hold us spellbound.' LOUISE GUINNESS, LITERARY REVIEW 'One of the most overpowering aspects of The Magician's Wife is its enticing Algérián atmosphere: dark narrow lanes and white-washed Moorish houses, rosewater and orange trees and faded pitik silken robes... It's a növel which contains countless riches, a narrative tourde force whose subtlety of purpose adds lashings of illumination... superb.' PATRÍCIA CRAIG, INDEPENDENT Front cover photographs from the Royal Photographic Society Collection. Bath, England: Oenone' by Júlia Margaret Camsron; 'Au Désert', by R.Prouho.

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