Exile, love, and magic combine delightfully in this Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a young magician who smuggles himself out of Hitler's Prague to join his Brooklyn cousin. Inspired by their own fantasies, they seek their fortune in the Golden Age of comic books, even as Hitler's shadow falls across Europe. From the author of Wonder Boys. "Jubilant and purposeful, graceful and complex, hilarious and enrapturing."—Booklist