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The Glass Pearls
The Glass Pearls
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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 neighbors 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, and 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
ISBN: 9780571371044
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