WebbOn honeymoon in Venice in 1929, Viktor and Liesel Landauer face a new world when they meet brilliant architect Rainer von Abt. Soon, on a hillside near a provincial Czech town, the Landauer House with its celebrated Glass Room will become von Abt's greatest work, a modernist masterpiece in glass and steel, with travertine floors and onyx walls, filled … WebbSummary: "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 …

Simon Mawer

WebbIts 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 - … http://simonmawer.com/TheGlassRoom.htm chinese gestures and body language

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Webb1 nov. 2015 · Review: The Glass Room by Simon Mawer A novel of architecture, art, betrayal and sex impresses Ian Sansom 23 Jan 2009 February 2003 Before the fall DJ Taylor enjoys The Fall, Simon Mawer's... Webb1 feb. 2009 · Simon Mawer's THE GLASS ROOM, which (like AS Byatt's THE CHILDREN'S BOOK) lost out to Hilary Mantel's WOLF HALL in 2009, … WebbTHE GLASS ROOM - Shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the Wingate Prize published in January 2009 by Little, Brown. " ...Mawer’s control of his themes of language, desire, memory and the power of place is extraordinary... " The Daily Telegraph. grand mon lohas park