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The Glass Room 

by

Simon Mawer

The Glass Room

(2009)
A novel by

Simon Mawer

Awards
The Booker Prize (nominee)


 

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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Hardback Editions

January 2009 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1408700778Title: The Glass Room
Author(s): Simon Mawer
ISBN: 1-4087-0077-8 / 978-1-4087-0077-8 (UK edition)
Publisher: Little, Brown
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Paperback Editions

March 2010 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 034912132XTitle: The Glass Room
Author(s): Simon Mawer
ISBN: 0-349-12132-X / 978-0-349-12132-1 (UK edition)
Publisher: Abacus
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October 2009 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1590513967Title: The Glass Room
Author(s): Simon Mawer
ISBN: 1-59051-396-7 / 9781590513965 (USA edition)
Publisher: Other Press
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August 2009 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1408702525Title: The Glass Room
Author(s): Simon Mawer
ISBN: 1-4087-0252-5 / 978-1-4087-0252-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Piatkus Books
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