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2011 Longlist

The Glass Room

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

On honeymoon in Venice in 1929, Viktor and Lisel Landauer face a new world when they meet brilliant architect Rainer von Abt. Soon, on a hillside near a provincial Czech Town, the Landauer House with its celebrated Glass Room will become von Abt’s greatest work, a modernist masterpiece in glass and steel. But while Victor’s beautiful wife is Aryan he is Jewish and so when Nazi troops arrive the family must flee.
The spectacular building slips from hand to hand from Czech to Nazi to Soviet and finally to the Czechoslovak state. It becomes a laboratory, a shelter from the storm of war and a place where the broken and ruined find some kind of comfort until, with the collapse of Communism the Laundauers can finally return to where their story began.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Simon
Mawer

Simon Mawer grew up in England, Cyprus and Malta. He then moved to Italy, where he taught at the British International School in Rome for many years before returning to the UK. He is the author of several novels including the Man Booker shortlisted The Glass Room, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky and Tightrope.

Simon Mawer grew up in England, Cyprus and Malta. He then moved to Italy, where he taught at the British International School in Rome for many years before returning to the UK. He is the author of several novels including the Man Booker shortlisted The Glass Room, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky and Tightrope.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
England
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Brown Book Group, Other Press

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