{"product_id":"glass-room-1","title":"Glass Room","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A passionately detailed portrait of individuals struggling to snatch order and happiness from frightening, irrational times'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Mawer embeds...provocative aesthetic and moral issues in a war-torn adventure story that''s eerily erotic and tremendously exciting....[a] gorgeous novel'' \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe inspiration for the major motion picture \u003ci\u003eThe Affair\u003c\/i\u003e, available on demand.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57308633432446,"sku":"NW9780349121321","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780349121321.jpg?v=1778654400","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/glass-room-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}