num_pages: 304
description: From the beloved award-winning bestselling author of The Cellist of Sarajevo a beautiful suspense-filled novel that uses the life and sudden death of Harry Houdini to weave a magical tale of intrigue love and illusion. The Confabulist weaves together the life loves and murder of the world's greatest magician Harry Houdini with the story of the man who killed him (twice): Martin Strauss an everyday man whose fate was tied to the magician's in unforeseen ways. A cast of memorable characters spins around Houdini's celebrity-driven life as they did in his time: from the Romanov family soon to be assassinated to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the powerful heads of Scotland Yard and the Spiritualists who would use whoever they could to establish their religion. A brilliant novel about fame and ambition reality and illusion and the ways that love grief and imagination can alter what we perceive and believe.
language: English
title: The Confabulist
publisher: Knopf Canada