The glass room
Our rough guess is there are 101,250 words in this book.
At a pace averaging 250 words per minute, this book will take 6 hours and 45 minutes to read. With a half hour per day, this will take 14 days to read.
How long will it take you?
This book will take an estimated to read at a reading speed averaging words per minute. With 30 minutes per day, this will take to read.
Enter your reading speedYou can take one of our WPM reading speed tests to find your reading speed.
Create a free account to track your reading progress, build your reading list, and set reading goals.
Word Count
101,250 words, Guess
Page Count
405 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveglassroom0000mawe_x9t6
- ISBN-101408700778
- ISBN-139781408700778
- Library of Congress Control Number2009396281
- OCLC Control Number261947887
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781408700778
- Open LibraryOL23947500M
Classifications
- DDC823.914
- LCCPR9120.9.M38 G53 2009b
- LCCPR9120.9.M38
and 1 more
- LCCPR9120.9.M38 G53 2009
Description
On honeymoon in Venice in 1929, Viktor and Liesel Landauer face a new world when they meet brilliant architect Rainer von Abt. Soon, on a hillside near a provincial Czech town, the Landauer House with its celebrated Glass Room will become von Abt's greatest work, a modernist masterpiece in glass and steel, with travertine floors and onyx walls, filled with light and optimism. But while Viktor's beautiful wife is Aryan, he is Jewish, and so when Nazi troops arrive the family must flee. Yet their exile is not the end of the spectacular building. It slips from hand to hand, from Czech to Nazi to Soviet and finally to the Czechoslovak state, the crystalline perfection of the Glass Room always exerting a gravitational pull on those who know it. It becomes a laboratory, a shelter from the storm of war, and a place where the broken and the ruined find some kind of comfort until, with the collapse of Communism, the Landauers can finally return to where their story began.
Subjects
Topics
Places
Times
Genres
- Fiction
Reader Reviews
No reviews yet for this book.
Be the first to share your thoughts!