{"product_id":"9780349121321","title":"The Glass Room","description":"Author: Simon Mawer\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780349121321\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Aug 2010\u003cbr\u003ePages: 416 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCool. 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46491601272990,"sku":"ADS-9780349121321","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780349121321.jpg?v=1770594867","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780349121321","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}