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The Glass Room Book

* Inspired by a real house, an amazing modernist symbol, Simon Mawer has written his best novel yet, a story guaranteed to dazzle and intrigue the readerRead More

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    Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science the wild variance of lust the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechoslovak hill the Landauer House shines as a wonder of steel and glass and onyx built specially for newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer a Jew married to a gentile. But the radiant honesty of 1930 that the house with its unique Glass Room seems to engender quickly tarnishes as the storm clouds of WW2 gather and eventually the family must flee accompanied by Viktor's lover and her child. But the house's story is far from over and as it passes from hand to hand from Czech to Russian both the best and the worst of the history of Eastern Europe becomes somehow embodied and perhaps emboldened within the beautiful and austere surfaces and planes so carefully designed until events become full-circle.

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    Inspired by a real house and amazing modernist symbol, the Villa Tugendhat in the Czech Republic, Simon Mawer's The Glass Room is guaranteed to dazzle and intrigue the reader.

  • 034912132X
  • 9780349121321
  • Simon Mawer
  • 22 April 2010
  • Abacus
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 416

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