by Brian Moore · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006551102
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«The Magician's Wife» is Brian Moore's historical novel, published in 1998 by Flamingo in paperback (224 pages, in English).
In 1856, the magician Henri Lambert travels to Algeria with his wife Emmeline on a mission from Napoleon III. He must dazzle the Algerians with apparent miracles to curb the influence of their religious leaders and prevent a holy war. The plot blends imperial ambition, faith, and the cracks in a marriage between the court and the desert.
Novel shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 1997. It first appeared in London, published by Bloomsbury in 1997; this Flamingo edition is from 1998.
For readers of historical fiction and book clubs interested in colonialism, faith, and moral dilemmas.
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.
