Sala de Vidro - Glass Room (Em Portugues do Brasil)

(Quando o empresario judeu Viktor Landauer e sua mulher Li...)

Quando o empresario judeu Viktor Landauer e sua mulher Liesel contratam o visionario arquiteto Rainer von Abt para construir a casa do casal, eles tem a intencao de erguer um lugar moderno, repleto de luz e despido de ornamentos. A casa se torna referencia, e sua sala de vidro, uma verdadeira obra-prima, e capaz de deixar transparecer as relacoes mais complexas e veladas entre seus visitantes. Mas quando a invasao nazista tem inicio, o casal e obrigado a abandonar tudo e fugir. Os alemaes invadem a casa, transformando-a em laboratorio de pesquisa nazista. Mais tarde, ela e ocupada pelos sovieticos e pelo governo da Tchecoslovaquia. Porem, nada consegue arrancar a aura desse lugar, capaz de evocar sentimentos e cena viscerais

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Swimming to Ithaca

(On her deathbed, Dee Denham whispers to her son Thomas th...)

On her deathbed, Dee Denham whispers to her son Thomas that her cancer is a punishment for her past actions. Compelled by a grief he cannot articulate and a confused childhood memory of betrayal, as Thomas begins the process of dismantling his mother's life he finds himself searching for the meaning of her last words. He delves into Dee's past as a forces' wife in 1950s' Cyprus. Dee had sailed out to join her husband Edward, serving as a Wing Commander in the waning British Empire's messy embroilment in Cyprus's partisan guerrilla war. Embarked on a dangerous liaison of his own, he searches through faded photographs and love letters, seeks out survivors and examines his own imperfect remembrance, and suddenly a whole vanished world comes to life. The restless, seductive island of Cyprus at the end of Empire, a place of oleander and carob trees, cocktails at the Harbour Club and adultery in shuttered bedrooms, peopled by ghostly admirers and conspirators, lovers and spies. With gathering momentum Dee's story unfolds, an intimate history of violence and tenderness for which Thomas finds himself quite unprepared, and in the background the distant, ominous roar of approaching disaster. The most startling revelation waits until the end. The real victim of Dee's betrayal, Thomas discovers, was someone apparently detached from the family orbit.

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The Glass Room Publisher: Other Press

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The Gospel of Judas: A Novel

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El evangelio de Judas (The Gospel of Judas) (Spanish Edition) by Simon Mawer (2006-11-01)

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Tightrope

( From the author of the best-selling and Booker Prize–sh...)

From the author of the best-selling and Booker Prize–shortlisted The Glass Room and Trapeze An historical thriller that brings back Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and traces her romantic and political exploits in post-World War II London, where the Cold War is about to reshape old loyalties   As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. One of a handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of Ravensbrück concentration camp, but at what cost? Returned to an England she barely knows and a postwar world she doesn’t understand, Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her, but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the monstrosities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When the mysterious Major Fawley, the man who hijacked her wartime mission to Paris, emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War, she sees a way to make amends for the past and at the same time to find the identity that has never been hers.   A novel of divided loyalties and mixed motives, Tightrope is the complex and enigmatic story of a woman whose search for personal identity and fulfillment leads her to shocking choices.      

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The Glass Room

(A New York Times Best-Seller Honeymooners Viktor and Li...)

A New York Times Best-Seller 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 the future, and the Landauer House becomes an instant masterpiece.  Viktor and Liesel, a rich Jewish mogul married to a thoughtful, modern gentile, pour all of their hopes for their marriage and budding family into their stunning new home, filling it with children, friends, and a generation of artists and thinkers eager to abandon old-world European style in favor of the new and the avant-garde. But as life intervenes, their new home also brings out their most passionate desires and darkest secrets. As Viktor searches for a warmer, less challenging comfort in the arms of another woman, and Liesel turns to her wild, mischievous friend Hana for excitement, the marriage begins to show signs of strain. The radiant honesty and idealism of 1930 quickly evaporate beneath the storm clouds of World War II. As Nazi troops enter the country, the family must leave their old life behind and attempt to escape to America before Viktor's Jewish roots draw Nazi attention, and before the family itself dissolves. As the Landauers struggle for survival abroad, their home slips from hand to hand, from Czech to Nazi to Soviet possession and finally back to the Czechoslovak state, with new inhabitants always falling under the fervent and unrelenting influence of the Glass Room. Its crystalline perfection exerts a gravitational pull on those who know it, inspiring them, freeing them, calling them back, until the Landauers themselves are finally drawn home to where their story began. Brimming with barely contained passion and cruelty, the precision of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession, and the fear of failure - the Glass Room contains it all.

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By Simon Mawer - Trapeze (Original) (2012-05-16) Paperback

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The Bitter Cross

(It is the 16th century, Northern Europe is reeling under ...)

It is the 16th century, Northern Europe is reeling under the heresy of Protestantism, Southern Europe and the Mediterranean are reeling under the onslaught of Islam. How should a young Englishman serving as a Knight of Saint John in the fortress island of Malta react to these momentous events?

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A Jealous God

(From the author of CHIMERA and THE BITTER CROSS, a novel ...)

From the author of CHIMERA and THE BITTER CROSS, a novel set in England, Cyprus and Israel, in which a woman is compelled to confront her past after a meeting with her estranged stepbrother, and embarks on a journey to discover the reasons behind her father's death.

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Place in Italy by Simon Mawer (1992-10-12)

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Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics

(Considered one of the greatest scientists in history, Gre...)

Considered one of the greatest scientists in history, Gregor Mendel was the first person to map the characteristics of a living thing’s successive generations, thus forming the foundation of modern genetic science. In Gregor Mendel, distinguished novelist and biologist Simon Mawer outlines Mendel’s groundbreaking research and traces his intellectual legacy from his discoveries in the mid-19th century to the present. In an engaging narrative enhanced by beautiful illustrations, Mawer details Mendel’s life and work, from his experimentation with garden peas through his subsequent findings about heredity and genetic traits. Mawer also highlights the scientific work built on Mendel’s breakthroughs, including the discovery of the DNA molecule by scientists Watson and Crick in the 1950s, the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, and the advances in genetics that continue today.

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El evangelio de Judas (The Gospel of Judas) (Spanish Edition)

(A scroll is discovered, buried for over 1,600 years among...)

A scroll is discovered, buried for over 1,600 years among the ancient papyri of the Dead Sea. Although fragile and crumbling, the scroll is mostly intact, the faded lines of Koine script still legible. When Father Leo Newman, a priest from Rome, is called to Jerusalem to help decipher the scroll's meaning, he soon discovers that the text appears to be a fifth gospel - one that tells the story of Jesus' life and crucifixion from the point of view of Judas Iscariot. If the scroll is authentic and if the radical, incendiary story it tells is true all of Christianity itself will be open to a complete reinterpretation. Not to mention that his whole life, which has always been held together by the strength of his faith and his intellect, is poised on the brink of an abyss. Description in Spanish: "Durante 1.600 años el Evangelio de Judas permaneció escondido. Cuando por fin los expertos consiguieron descifrar su significado, su sorpresa fue indescriptible. Estaban ante un evangelio del que muchos de ellos desconocían su existencia, escrito desde el punto de vista de Judas Iscariote, el traidor de la historia, que ahora aparece, en estas páginas, como un héroe. Esta reinterpretación radical sostiene que fue Cristo quien le pidió que lo traicionara contradiciendo al Nuevo Testamento y los evangelios conocidos. Judas Iscariote se presenta aquí como ejemplo de los otros discípulos, el único apóstol que realmente comprendía a Jesucristo. Es esta la primera publicación del manuscrito que fue encontrado a mediados de los años setenta por unos campesinos egipcios en Al-Minya. Durante estos años, fue comprado y vendido por anticuarios, escondido y trasladado por tres continentes que redujeron gran parte de él a fragmentos. En 2001, llegó a manos de un equipo de expertos que ha trabajado con minuciosidad en la restauración del códice. El Evangelio de Judas, traducido del copto a una prosa clara, aparece aquí acompañado de comentarios sobre la fascinante

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Trapeze

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Gospel of Judas GOSPEL OF JUDAS By Mawer, Simon ( Author )May-08-2002 Paperback

(Gospel of Judas GOSPEL OF JUDAS By Mawer, Simon ( Author ...)

Gospel of Judas GOSPEL OF JUDAS By Mawer, Simon ( Author )May-08-2002 Paperback

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The Gospel of Judas

(Amongst the ancient papyri of the Dead Sea, a remarkable ...)

Amongst the ancient papyri of the Dead Sea, a remarkable scroll is discovered. Written in the first century AD, it purports to be the true account of the life of Jesus, as told by Youdas the sicarios - Judas Iscariot: the missing Gospel of Judas. If authentic, it will be one of the most incendiary documents in the history of humankind. The task of proving - or disproving - its validity falls to Father Leo Newman, one of the world's leading experts in Koine, the demotic Greek of the Roman Empire, and a man the newspapers like to call a 'renegade priest'. But as Leo absorbs himself in Judas' testimony, the stories of his own life haunt him. The story of his forbidden yet irresistible love for a married woman. The story of his mother's passionate and tragic affair amidst the war-time ruins of Rome. They are stories of love and betrayal that may threaten his faith just as deeply as the Gospel of Judas...With a dramatic narrative that spans from the Europe of the Second World War to Jerusalem two thousand years after Jesus' birth, THE GOSPEL OF JUDAS is a compelling and erudite thriller.

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