Engaging tale of a chilling place in time
Simon Mawer ’s powerful and elegiac new novel centres on mankind’s simple but vital need for a place to call home.
The Glass Room By Simon Mawer Little, Brown, €22.95
Simon Mawer ’s powerful and elegiac new novel centres on mankind’s simple but vital need for a place to call home.
On their honeymoon in Venice in 1929, the cultured, wealthy couple Viktor and Liesel Landauer meet a maverick architect called Rainer von Abt, who has an ambitious vision to build a rectangular house of glass.
Sharing his modernist viewpoint, the Landauers commission von ...
