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Title Statement | The glass pearls / Emeric Pressburger. |
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Series | Faber editions |
Author | Pressburger, Emeric, 1902-1988 |
Additional Contributors | Quinn, Anthony,1964- |
Publication | London: Faber & Faber Ltd,2022.©1966 |
Extent of Item | xii, 260 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780571371044 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr06717931 |
General Notes | "With a new foreword by Anthony Quinn."--Back cover. Originally published: London : Heinemann, 1966. |
Summary | 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, dances the twist. But as the newspapers fill with reports of the hunt for Nazi war criminals, his nightmares worsen ... A forgotten classic by the film-maker of Powell and Pressburger fame, The Glass Pearls (1966) is not only a thrilling feat of Hitchcockian noir but a haunting dissection of guilt, paranoia and moral ambiguity. |
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By Topic | War criminals--Fiction |
By Location | London (England)--Fiction--History--20th century |
By Genre | Historical fiction |
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