The Glass Pearls
This sinister tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a forgotten feat of Hitchcockian noir.
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 émigrés, 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 ...
Author: Emeric Pressburger
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 10/11/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780571371044
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2022 pg. 105
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 émigrés, 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 ...
Author: Emeric Pressburger
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 10/11/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780571371044
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2022 pg. 105
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