Fifth character. Manticore. World of Wonders

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Robertson Davis is the greatest Canadian writer, a master of plot intricacies and riddles, one of the best storytellers in English literature. He was shortlisted by Booker, at the end of his life he almost won the Nobel Prize, but, even forever remaining among the candidates, he won the status of a world classic. His "Fifth Character" was considered the beginning of the "Canadian breakthrough" in world literature; John Fowles himself described this novel as "one of those rare books that would not be harmed if it were genuine." Manticore, which followed The Fifth Character, was awarded the main Canadian literary award - the Governor General's Award. World of Wonders, the final novel of the Deptford Trilogy, is the autobiography of the magician and wizard Magnus Isengrim, the story of his rise from the abyss of humiliation to the heights of world fame. So, under one cover - the entire "Deptford Trilogy". This is a chronicle of several lives, which has a detective story in the background, this is a book about friendship-enmity of people familiar from childhood, about a secret that tied their fates into a tight knot; The first will become a millionaire and a politician, the second will become a world-famous magician, the third will become a historian and hagiographer. One of them is destined to die under mysterious circumstances, the other two - to solve the riddle.

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Publication language: Russian

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