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The Glass Pearls

Emeric Pressburger

4.02/5 (486 ratings)

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This thrilling tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a lost gem with 'the morbid tension of a thriller' (introduced by Anthony Quinn, author of Curtain Call and Our Friends in Berlin).

Nothing is more inviting to disclose your secrets than to be told by others of their own ...

London, June 1965. Karl Braun arrives as a lodger in Pimlico: hatless, with a bow-tie, greying hair, slight in build. His new neighbours are intrigued by this cultured German gentleman who works as a piano tuner; many are fellow émigrés, who assume that he, like them, came to England to flee Hitler. That summer, Braun courts a woman, attends classical concerts, dances the twist. But as the newspapers fill with reports of the hunt for Nazi war criminals, his nightmares become increasingly worse .

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 226 pages

Publication:: 2015

Publisher:: Faber and Faber

Edition:: Revised ed.

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0571324940

ISBN13:: 9780571324941

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The Glass Pearls

Emeric Pressburger

4.02/5 (486 ratings)

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This thrilling tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a lost gem with 'the morbid tension of a thriller' (introduced by Anthony Quinn, author of Curtain Call and Our Friends in Berlin).

Nothing is more inviting to disclose your secrets than to be told by others of their own ...

London, June 1965. Karl Braun arrives as a lodger in Pimlico: hatless, with a bow-tie, greying hair, slight in build. His new neighbours are intrigued by this cultured German gentleman who works as a piano tuner; many are fellow émigrés, who assume that he, like them, came to England to flee Hitler. That summer, Braun courts a woman, attends classical concerts, dances the twist. But as the newspapers fill with reports of the hunt for Nazi war criminals, his nightmares become increasingly worse .

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 226 pages

Publication:: 2015

Publisher:: Faber and Faber

Edition:: Revised ed.

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0571324940

ISBN13:: 9780571324941

kindle Asin:

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