The Glass Pearls (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780571371044)

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 駑igr駸, 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
ISBN-10: 0571371043
ISBN-13: 9780571371044
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2022
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2022 pg. 105