The Glass Pearls (Faber Editions): 'A wonderful noir thriller and tremendous rediscovery' - William Boyd
'A wonderful noir thriller and tremendous rediscovery' - William Boyd
Emeric Pressburger
ISBN: | 9780571371044 |
Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
Published: | 4 August, 2022 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Allen And Unwin |
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The Glass Pearls (Faber Editions): 'A wonderful noir thriller and tremendous rediscovery' - William Boyd
'A wonderful noir thriller and tremendous rediscovery' - William Boyd
Emeric Pressburger
'This extraordinary novel had me hooked from start to finish, and left me with so much to brood on that I felt giddy ... A fascinating, morally complex, deeply unsettling read.' - Sarah Waters
'A dark and harrowing window on the past: the ending will haunt your dreams. This is a novel that should never be forgotten again.' - Janice Hallett
_ 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 emigres, who assume that he, like them, came to England to flee Hitler. That summer, Braun courts a woman, attends classical concerts, buys bacon, dances the twist. But as the newspapers fill with reports of the hunt for Nazi war criminals, his nightmares become increasingly worse.
'At once a wonderfully compelling noir thriller and, more significantly, an audacious and challenging act of imagination. A tremendous rediscovery.' - William Boyd
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