Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in ...

New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story of sex, politics, and betrayal. In the summer of 1968, the year of Prague Spring...

In Simon Mawer's remarkably poised and poignant novel, the small momentis as significant as the large, and 'the detail dictat[es] to the whole.' Biblical scholar Father Leo Newman has spent a lifetime deciphering meaning from evanesce...