{"product_id":"the-glass-pearls-faber-editions-0571371043","title":"The Glass Pearls (Faber Editions)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0571371043\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pressburger, Emeric\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51525356519712,"sku":"NEW0571371043","price":13.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71epH7SoWgL_27186757-42b0-473a-b6c4-b0d4d807c4dc.jpg?v=1777148761","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-glass-pearls-faber-editions-0571371043","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}