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A Czech architectural landmark has provided the backdrop, and indeed
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in a Czech town, from conception to construction, eventually to seizure by
the state. The Glass Room has been receiving a great deal of publicity ever
since it was nominated for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. Over the phone
from his home in Italy, author Simon Mawer voiced his bewilderment as to
why his book was proving so popular in Britain at the moment: More
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the result of a movement of many decades, and when at least it came, in
1918, after four hard years of war, the joy must have been very palpable.
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certainly not lost to us, and one of the ways we can relive it is through
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today. Perhaps one Czech in a hundred could identify who he was. But at the
birth of Czechoslovakia and in the 1920s and 1930s, Preiss was an economic
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Czech BooksSimon Mawer talks about The Glass Room
One of the most acclaimed books to be published in the last couple of years
is the Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel, The Glass Room, by the British
writer, Simon Mawer. It is a book with more than a passing relevance to the
Czech Republic, as the hero is a building that stands to this day on the
edge of the city of Brno.
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ArtsReflections of modern Czech history in Simon Mawer’s ‘The Glass Room’
A Czech architectural landmark has provided the backdrop, and indeed
central theme, for a book which has been creating a stir in the literary
world. The Glass Room by Simon Mawer tells the story of a modernist villa
in a Czech town, from conception to construction, eventually to seizure by
the state. The Glass Room has been receiving a great deal of publicity
ever
since it was nominated for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. Over the
phone
from his home in Italy, author Simon Mawer voiced his bewilderment as to
why his book was proving so popular in Britain at the moment: More
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