Prague Spring
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by Simon Mawer
About the Author
Simon Mawer is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Glass Room, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. His other novels include The Fall (winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize), The Gospel of Judas, Mendel’s Dwarf (long-listed for the Man Booker Prize), and Trapeze. Tightrope, his twelfth book and tenth novel, was published in 2015. English by birth, Mawer has made Italy his home for more than thirty years.