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The first chapter is genius and has to be read. Certain chapters - the house itself as a character particularly - have to be read. Full marks for not pretending to know what the holocaust felt like: has characters as millionaires able to escape. Seamstress character very good. If you'd like to see the house, it really exists: but you have to book far in advance, apparently. It's in Brno. Friend's sister did an internship there, apparently it's ugly, cheap and connected by fast rail links to all
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Lovely. Lyrical. Mawer gives us a domestic drama, both in the sense that the main character is a house and that the tale is about the family that has it built. The story starts post WWI and continues through WWII and beyond. As historic fiction, it is interesting to see the newly created Czechoslovakia trying to find itself post-Hapsburg. Mawer’s language is lovely. He does stretch credulity a bit trying to tie up loose ends by setting them in the house.
RWS Fall 2020 #20.9 BBC Book at Bedtime, p. 9
Jul 16, 2012
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