SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE The inspiration for the major
motion picture The Affair, now available on demand. 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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Tue, 15 May 2012 | Review
by: Rholda L.
Fabulous read, I couldn't put the book down and was really sorry when I had finished it. Read it too please!!
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