Never read any by this guy before, but from the bibliography, at the start, I should; he sounds a bit like Antony Burgess, mixing fiction (I am not a fan of Burgess) with interesting literary work.
This is a fictionalised biography of Thomas Mann. Quite long and hard work, Mann despite being sexually pretty ambiguous, appears to have been happily married and had six, quite complex, children.
But this becomes a history of Germany in the early 20th century, and latterly of the German diaspora which flees Nazi Germany from the Nazis, mostly writers and artists and not all Jewish (Mann wasn’t but his wife was). So you get Germany in the 1930s and America in the 1940s, with Mann the celebrated novelist living over there and the US resisting before Pearl Harbour joining the war.
Very good and interesting – I should read more.
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