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Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the
optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when
they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a
home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and the
Landauer House becomes an instant masterpiece. Viktor and Liesel, a
rich Jewish mogul married to a thoughtful, modern gentile, pour all
of their hopes for their marriage and budding family into their
stunning new home, filling it with children, friends, and a
generation of artists and thinkers eager to abandon old-world
European style in favor of the new and the avant-garde. But as life
intervenes, their new home also brings out their most passionate
desires and darkest secrets. As Viktor searches for a warmer, less
challenging comfort in the arms of another woman, and Liesel turns
to her wild, mischievous friend Hana for excitement, the marriage
begins to show signs of strain. The radiant honesty and idealism of
1930 quickly evaporate beneath the storm clouds of World War II. As
Nazi troops enter the country, the family must leave their old life
behind and attempt to escape to America before Viktor's Jewish
roots draw Nazi attention, and before the family itself dissolves.
As the Landauers struggle for survival abroad, their home slips
from hand to hand, from Czech to Nazi to Soviet possession and
finally back to the Czechoslovak state, with new inhabitants always
falling under the fervent and unrelenting influence of the Glass
Room. Its crystalline perfection exerts a gravitational pull on
those who know it, inspiring them, freeing them, calling them back,
until the Landauers themselves are finally drawn home to where
their story began.
Brimming with barely contained passion and cruelty, the precision
of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession,
and the fear of failure - the Glass Room contains it all.
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