Six years after the ground-breaking dystopia Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel weaves together the stories of a bartender, a hotel owner and a shipping agent into a kaleidoscopic mystery.
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The extraordinary novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Station Eleven
Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: 'Why don't you swallow broken glass.' Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship.
Weaving together the lives of these characters, Emily St John Mandel's The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 2928377025915
Number of pages: 320
Dimensions: 216 x 135 mm
Inspired by the Bernie Madoff scandal, The Glass Hotel describes the collapse of a multi-million dollar investment scheme and the impact of that collapse on the both the investors and the perpetrators.
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Wow.
I have just turned the last page of The Glass Hotel (thank you to Picador for the advance proof) and I can safely say it is my book of the year so far. In fact, I will be very surprised if anything can top this...
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I struggled with The Glass Hotel. It flits between characters which don’t develop sufficiently for me to fully immerse into the story. Time also switches around constantly. I found it a rather dark and depressing... More
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