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A unique house becomes the central character in Simon Mawer’s colourful fictional history, which spans 60 tumultuous years of the 20th century.High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a marvel of steel, glass and onyx. Built specially for newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer, a Jew married to a gentile, it is one of the wonders of modernist architecture. But as the storm clouds of World War Two gather, the family must flee. The building slips through dark and dangerous times, from hand to hand, from regime to regime, until one day the Landauers are finally drawn back to where they belong."Mawer's technique here is a form of the historical layering that he previously plied in Swimming to Ithaca and The Fall. Five sections move the story from 1928 through Nazi occupation, Soviet control and the Prague Spring to the aftermath of the Velvet Revolution. Like the house, the novel is flawlessly constructed, revealing the careful plan of its reflections and symmetries, the lines of force hidden in its surfaces and its concealed architecture. Its only snag is that the final blueprints seem, if anything, too neatly drawn, too traditional: the book could have done without its

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Author

Mawer, Simon

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group Limited

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780349121321

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

3.87 / 5 (357 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14