The Glass Pearls - Paperback

The Glass Pearls - Paperback

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The Glass Pearls - Paperback
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The Glass Pearls - Paperback

The Glass Pearls - Paperback

$12.95
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by Emeric Pressburger (Author)

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 ...
Number of Pages: 288
Dimensions: 0.9 x 7.7 x 5 IN
Publication Date: October 11, 2022

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