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  • The Glass Room

  • Written by: Simon Mawer
  • Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
  • Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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The Glass Room

Written by: Simon Mawer
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
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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 World War II 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 come full-circle.
©2009 Simon Mawer (P)2010 Recorded Books LLC
Historical Fiction
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Interesting, but you have to like the characters

There are many interesting sub-stories in this novel covering aesthetics, sexual desire, infidelity, wartime occupation and oppression and fleeing persecution towards a better life. It’s well written. I enjoyed the snippets on architecture. The thing I didn’t love, are the main characters. They’re wealthy, opinionated, sometimes snooty, or blasé, often pretentious and overly concerned with appearances. Frankly, many of the characters annoyed me and I felt the narrator comes across sounding pompous and snooty too, which added to my annoyance. Do if you react to that type negatively, you too may be put off by them too.

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