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The Trick

Name: The Trick
Author: Emanuel Bergmann

A Novel

Emanuel Bergmann,

384 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

The Trick

A Novel

Emanuel Bergmann,

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Sweeping between Prague during World War II and modern-day Los Angeles, "The Trick is a lyrical, uplifting, and funny story that will tug at all of your heartstrings" (Armando Lucas Correa, bestselling author of The German Girl ) that follows a young boy seeking out a cynical, old magician in the hopes that his spells might keep his family together. In 1934, a rabbi's son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini, just as Europe descends into World War II. When Zabbatini is discovered to be a Jew, his battered trunk full of magic tricks becomes his only hope for survival.Seventy years later in Los Angeles, ten-year-old Max finds a scratched-up LP that captured Zabbatini performing his greatest illusions. But the track in which Zabbatini performs the spell of eternal love—the spell Max believes will keep his parents from getting divorced—is damaged beyond repair. Desperate for a solution, Max seeks out the now elderly, cynical magician and begs him for help.With gentle wisdom and heartbreaking humor, this is an inventive, deeply moving story about a young boy who needs a miracle, and a disillusioned old man who needs redemption.

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Publisher

Atria Books

Year

2017

ISBN

9781501155840

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Historical Fiction

Index

Literature

Cover
Chapter 1 : The Way Things Ought to Be
Chapter 2 : The End of It All
Chapter 3 : The Miracle
Chapter 4 : His Greatest Tricks
Chapter 5 : The Eagle and the Lamb
Chapter 6 : The Sweet Life
Chapter 7 : All That Remains
Chapter 8 : Eternal Love
Chapter 9 : Secrets
Chapter 10 : The Magic Shop
Chapter 11 : The Persian Princess
Chapter 12 : The Mentalist
Chapter 13 : An Artist
Chapter 14 : A Thousand Lights
Chapter 15 : The Beautiful Lie
Chapter 16 : The Believer
Chapter 17 : Something from Nothing
Chapter 18 : Max and the Magician
Chapter 19 : The Bones of Children
Chapter 20 : The Burglar
Chapter 21 : This Coming Darkness
Chapter 22 : Who Will Say Kaddish?
Chapter 23 : The End of the Zauber-Zirkus
Chapter 24 : Punch and Judy
Chapter 25 : World-Famous in Berlin
Chapter 26 : The Clown Room
Chapter 27 : A Visitor
Chapter 28 : The Last Magic Show
Chapter 29 : Two Pounds of Sugar
Chapter 30 : Mickey’s Pizza Palace
Chapter 31 : Scheherazade’s Last Tale
Chapter 32 : His Last Fight
Chapter 33 : The Trick
Chapter 34 : The Living
Chapter 35 : The Suitcase Factory
Chapter 36 : The Final Curtain
Chapter 37 : The Way Things Are
Acknowledgments
Reading Group Guide
About the Author
Copyright