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The Glass Room

by Simon Mawer

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First published: 2009
Pages: 402

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Viktor and Liesel Landauer commission a modern house of glass, steel, and onyx on a Czechoslovak hillside. Their home offers a setting for private desires and tensions as war approaches and forces the family to leave. The house remains at the center of the novel as successive occupants bring changing political powers and personal histories through its rooms.

About the author

Simon Mawer

Simon Mawer (1948-2025) taught biology before beginning a long career as a novelist. He earned a degree in zoology at Oxford and later taught in Rome. His debut novel, Chimera, won the McKitterick Prize, while The Fall took the 2003 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.

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