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With this masterful "noir" thriller, Emeric Pressburger has created one of the most impressive works written on the Holocaust and the banality of evil. Piano tuner Karl Braun moves into his rented room in London in June 1965. At first glance, he seems like a kind-hearted gentleman who the reader can easily sympathize with, who is mourning the loss of his wife and child during the war, who understands music. This German, who gained the respect of his neighbors by saying that he left Germany in 1933 because of his political views, was actually a neurosurgeon and Nazi war criminal Dr. who was wanted for twenty years for crimes against humanity. He is none other than Otto Reitmüller. The tension gradually increases with the paranoia of the doctor, who lives in fear of being caught. Pressburger emphasizes the concepts of morality, responsibility and divine justice as he moves towards the shocking finale. A single article was published about Glass Pearls, which was introduced to readers in 1966, criticizing the revelation of Braun's true identity in the first chapter and thus missing the author's real issue. The novel was soon forgotten and took its place among the lost literary treasures. At that time, when war criminals were portrayed in literature by fitting into certain clichés, Pressburger's target was the character of Karl Braun, who brought together an ordinary person and a monster who committed gruesome crimes. As Hannah Arendt emphasized, the perpetrators of the Holocaust were not perverted or sadistic, but "the last criminals". It was to point out that they were “extremely human”.