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The Glass Pearls

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Glass Pearls

Contributors:

By (Author) Emeric Pressburger
Introduction by Anthony Quinn

ISBN:

9780571324941

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publication Date:

16th April 2015

Edition:

Main

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

823.914

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

240

Dimensions:

Width 126mm, Height 1968mm, Spine 17mm

Weight:

255g

Description

Karl Braun is a slight, grey-haired man who lodges in West London and works as a tuner for a firm of piano makers who know little or nothing about him. His fellow lodgers believe that he, like them, came to England to flee Hitler. But the outwardly poised Herr Braun is inwardly a very anxious man, wracked especially by newspaper reports of the ongoing hunt for Nazi war criminals.The Glass Pearls (1966) was the second novel by Emeric Pressburger, who, with Michael Powell, created such cinematic masterworks as A Matter of Life and Death and The Red Shoes. Likely inspired by the capture of Adolf Eichmann, it is a gripping psychological study of a cultured man, guilty of unspeakable crimes, trying to hide in plain sight.This new edition includes two new introductions, by cinema scholar Caitlin McDonald and by Pressburger's grandson, the Oscar-winning film director Kevin Macdonald.

Author Bio

Imre Jzsef Pressburger was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Miskolc, Hungary, in 1902. He studied in Prague and Stuttgart before the sudden death of his father forced him to get a job to support himself and his mother. He moved to Weimar-era Berlin in 1926, where he worked as a journalist then as a scriptwriter at the prestigious UFA. With the rise of the Nazi Party in 1933, Pressburger lost his job in the purge of Jewish employees and fled to Paris. His mother - and many relatives - died in Auschwitz; he never forgave himself for not being able to take her when he fled. In 1935 he relocated to London with its booming film industry and met Michael Powell. From 1942 they shared credit for writing, producing and directing 14 films released by their joint production company, The Archers, including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes. Pressburger was made a Fellow of BAFTA in 1981 and the BFI in 1983, and also wrote two novels: Killing a Mouse on Sunday (1961) and The Glass Pearls (1966). Originally on a stateless passport, he changed his name to Emeric in 1938 and became a British citizen in 1946. He married twice and had a daughter, and died in Suffolk in 1988.

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