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Viktor Landauer

This character is a rich and successful business man whose family owns a Czech and German automobile company.

Liesel

When the novel begins, this character is a young girl who has just married her childhood sweetheart and is completely excited to begin her life.

Hana

This childhood friend and admirer of the young wife in the novel expresses her interest in men and women, although she is already married.

Kata

This character is a Jewish dressmaker and occasional prostitute.

Marika

This very smart and inquisitive child is taken to a concentration camp with her mother and ends up in France after the war.

Stahl

This German Nazi scientist runs a laboratory in the old Landauer home.

Tomas

This character is a doctor at a children's rehabilitation center that is being run out of the Glass Room.

Zdenka

This character was a ballerina until she fell off...

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