The Glass Pearls (Faber Editions)

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 ...

• | Author: Emeric Pressburger
• | Publisher: Faber & Faber
• | Publication Date: Oct 11, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0571371043
• | ISBN-13: 9780571371044