The Glass Room nominated for the Booker Prize (04/10/2009)
The British novel The Glass Room (2009) by Simon Mawer was nominated for the prestigious Booker Prize. The story is fiction, but set in historical context. Mawer focused on the history of the famous Czech Tugendhat Villa in Brno and its residents. The villa was built in the late 1920s, the owners (called Landauers in the book) are Jewish and they leave the country before World War II to escape from the Nazis and the war. After the communist coup in 1948 the house is confiscated by the new Czechoslovak regime.
The Tugendhat Villa will be open till 31st December 2009 before a planned renovation starts.
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