Мистер Себастиан и черный маг

Daniel Wallace is a modern American classic, a worthy successor to the traditions of Ray Bradbury and Saul Bellow, Harper Lee and John Updike. His debut novel Big Fish was the basis for a recent Tim Burton film starring Ewan McGregor, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Danny DeVito. The devil in Wallace's new novel is as white as chalk, lives in a provincial hotel suite, knows a lot of card tricks, and calls himself Mr. Sebastian. Ten-year-old Henry Walker, upset that his younger sister began to spend all her time not with him, but with a stray dog, whom she named after the movie star Joan Crawford, is trained by Mr. Sebastian in the magical art and makes him a blood oath, an oath of a magician - never to betray the secret of any illusion and not even talk about magic to those who are not trained in the secret arts. The next day, Mr. Sebastian disappears - along with his sister Henry, and the boy makes a vow to himself: to become the greatest illusionist in the world, save his sister and take revenge on the devil. For the first time in Russian.