Written in English
Booker 2009 · Shortlist
The Glass Room
The Glass Room
Simon Mawer · 61 when first published
Novel · 416 pages · Historical, War, Love
AI-generated summary:In Czechoslovakia at the end of the 1920s, the newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer, a rich Jewish businessman and his gentile wife, commission a modernist architect to build them a house of steel and glass on a hill.