The Magician: A Novel

The Magician: A Novel by Colm Tóibín

This book is a fictional biography of Thomas Mann. this encompassed some rather significant world events, from the time leading up to World War II, the war and then the aftermath. He was a left-leaning German who was married to a Jewish woman. He thus left Germany and eventually became an American citizen. The novel covers interesting events, such as immigration authorities considering his map and writings to be potentially enemy spy documents (because they were written in German.) There are also interesting relationships between family members and other items. How much of this is actual events? How much truly expresses his life in a non-factual manner? And how much is just pure novelation of a time period in Germany using a known figure as the centerpiece?