New York: Scribner, (2021) DJ. Hardcover first edition - An epic novel by this award-winning author of the life of Thomas Mann - a Nobel laureate whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. While he was on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, he had a clear vision of the future in the second war, anticipating the horrors of Nazism. He had six children but kept his homosexuality hidden; He would write some of the greatest works of European literature, and win the Nobel Prize, but would never return to the country that inspired his creativity. 500 pp. ISBN: 978-1476785080.