{"product_id":"9780349121321","title":"The Glass Room","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Mawer, Simon, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 22\/04\/2010,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 416 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: 20th Century Architects, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Abacus,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Little, Brown Book Group,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Historical fiction\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780349121321\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCool. Balanced. Modern.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHigh 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35022700314777,"sku":"9780349121321","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780349121321.jpg?v=1602536833","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780349121321","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}