A very interesting read. The story keeps, moving even through dark times, with the development and introduction of new characters. Prompted a rowdy discussion.

Mawer's use of the glass room as methaphor and structure was brilliant. Good story line that was easily read with short chapters. Male characters were cold, distant, and rational. All the characters had secrets except for Hana. She was the only genuinely transparent character.

an interesting love story with World War II as the backdrop, particularly different was the war from the point of view of Czeckoslovakians. Really an unusual love triangle-loved the book!

The central character in this book is an iconic house in Brno, Czech Republic, by architect Mies van der Rohe, and specifically, The Glass Room. The story follows the original Jewish family that built the house, and the various people who pass through after they flee the Holocaust, including Nazi genetics "researchers."

Just a downer.