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Magician's Wife

Brian Moore
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1800s illusionist magic
A01=Brian Moore
Arabs poised for holy war
Author_Brian Moore
Based on true fact
Booker Prize shortlisted authors
Broken family drama
Category1=Fiction
Category=FV
Category=NL-FV
COP=United Kingdom
Deserts Algerian setting
Emotional heart breaking stories
Emperor of Arabia hot sunny
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Forbidden love thriller in Algeria
Format=BC
France in the 19th nineteenth century
Heat sensual romantic
Historical Napoleon III novel
HMM=198
I Am Mary Dunne Doctor's
I Am Mary Dunne Doctor’s
IMPN=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN13=9781408827017
Language_English
Leadership court 3rd third
Lies of Silence
Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
No Other Life Statement
PA=Available
PD=20120202
POP=London
Power politics religion
Price=€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Subject=Historical Fiction
Tender narrative human relationships
WG=190
WMM=129

Product details

  • ISBN 9781408827017
  • Weight: 300g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: London, GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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A mesmerising novel from three-time Booker Prize nominee Brian Moore
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‘A spellbinding storyteller' - Independent

‘A tour de force' - New York Times

‘Moore is a magician' - LA Times
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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.
About Brian Moore
Brian Moore was born in Belfast. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and then moved to California. He twice won the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction and has been given a special award from the United States Institute of Arts and Letters. He won the Author's Club First Novel Award for The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Great Victorian Collection. The Doctor's Wife, The Colour of Blood - winner of the Sunday Express 1988 Book of the Year - and Lies of Silence were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Six of his novels have been made into films - The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Catholics, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Cold Heaven, The Statement and Black Robe. Brian Moore died in 1999.

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