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From the beloved, award-winning, bestselling author of "The Cellist of Sarajevo," a beautiful, suspense-filled novel that uses the life and sudden death of Harry Houdini to weave a magical tale of intrigue, love and illusion.
"The Confabulist" weaves together the life, loves and murder of the world's greatest magician, Harry Houdini, with the story of the man who killed him (twice): Martin Strauss, an everyday man whose fate was tied to the magician's in unforeseen ways. A cast of memorable characters spins around Houdini's celebrity-driven life, as they did in his time: from the Romanov...

A spare and haunting, wise and beautiful novel about war and the endurance of the human spirit and the subtle ways individuals reclaim their humanity.
In a city under siege, four people whose lives have been upended are ultimately reminded of what it is to be human. From his window, a musician sees twenty-two of his friends and neighbors waiting in a breadline. Then, in a flash, they are killed by a mortar attack. In an act of defiance, the man picks up his cello and decides to play at the site of the shelling for twenty-two days, honoring their memory. Elsewhere, a young...

Tense and heartbreaking to its last page, 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' shows how life under seige creates impossible moral choices. When the everyday act of crossing the street can risk lives, the human spirit is revealed in all its fortitude - and frailty.

Dem Geschehen liegt eine wahre Begebenheit zugrunde§Bosnien, Anfang der 90er Jahre: Tag und Nacht wird das belagerte Sarajevo aus den Bergen ringsum beschossen. Die Bürger der Stadt leben in Angst, Nahrung und Wasser werden knapp. Doch immer wieder gibt es Menschen, die dem Irrsinn des Bürgerkriegs trotzen. Allen voran ein couragierter Musiker, der sich zum Zeichen des Protests gegen den sinnlosen Tod von 22 Menschen bei einem Granatenangriff jeden Tag um vier Uhr nachmittags im Frack mit seinem Cello inmitten der Ruinen auf die Straße setzt und das Adagio von Albinoni spielt, 22 Tage...