"The Glass Room" is a captivating novel that takes readers on a journey through a tumultuous time in Eastern Europe's history. The Landauer House, with its unique Glass Room, serves as the backdrop for a story that encompasses love and lust, hope and despair, and the incredible ability of humans to survive even the toughest times. The book's most unique feature is how it seamlessly weaves together history and architecture to create a gripping and thought-provoking tale that is sure to leave readers spellbound.

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• Booker Prize Nominee (2009)
• Exclusive Books Boeke Prize Nominee (2011)
• European Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2012)
• Walter Scott Prize Nominee (2010)
• Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Nominee (2010)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Cool. 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. High 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. But 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.

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