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"In this book--which I believe to be a small masterpiece--Mann has pushed the connection of evil with magic and magic with evil to the point where he demonstrates that the magic can perform the final miracle of making evil good. It is a triumph of art indistinguishable from moral sensibility which makes the miraculous, most incredible part of the story--the seventeen years on the island--seem the least absurd (in a tale which audaciously risks absurdities) and the most convincing."Mann, Thomas is the author of 'Holy Sinner' with ISBN 9780520076716 and ISBN 0520076710.
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