Roman or vile Tugendhat among the six finalists for the Man Booker Prize

London - The novel by writer Simon Mawer The Glass Room inspired by the fate of the famous Brno Tugendhat villa has made it to the final six of the prestigious British Man Booker Prize. The winner will be announced on October 6. This was announced by the organizers on their website.
    The novel depicts the story of a Jewish-Christian couple, the Landauers, living in a fictional city in pre-war Czechoslovakia, who have a modernist house built but must leave both the house and the country in a few years to escape the Nazis. The further fate of the villa serves as a backdrop for the vicissitudes of Czechoslovak history.
    Alongside Mawer, who has previously been nominated for the Man Booker Prize for the novel Mendel's Dwarf, the competition for the most prestigious award for English-language novelists this year includes South African J.M. Coetzee with the book Summertime and A.S. Byatt with the historical novel The Children's Book. Both have previously received the Man Booker Prize.
    The group of six is completed by writers Adam Foulds (The Quickening Maze), Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall), and Sarah Waters (The Little Stranger).