The Landauer House was a symbol of modernity, which is now completely dated, utterly trapped in its period; yet this fragile glass shell nevertheless survived the war: a space for dreams, romantic, foolishly idealistic, purely evil, or merely human.
A reviewer is usually lucky to be sent two books of this calibre in a year: two for one review is untold riches.
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