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From the writer of The Cellist of Sarajevo, a thrilling new book that uses the life and sudden death of Harry Houdini to weave a tale of magic, intrigue, and illusion. What's real and what's an illusion? Can you trust your memory to offer an exact record of what has happened in your life? The Confabulist is a clever , enjoyable, and suspenseful narrative that weaves collectively the climb and fall of world-famous Harry Houdini with the astonishing storyline of Martin Strauss, an anonymous man whose destiny seems forever linked with the magician's in a manner that will eventually startle and impress. It is simultaneously a vivid family portrait of the alluring, later-19th/early-20th-century world; a front-row chair to a world-class magic show; and an urgent love story. In the end, the publication is some sort of magic trick alone: There is much more to Martin than meets the attention. Historically abundant and ingeniously informed, this is a book about magic and memory, truth and illusion, and the ways that love, anticipation, grief, and imagination can - for good or for bad - alter everything we perceive and imagine.
