The Glass Hotel The Glass Hotel

The Glass Hotel

A novel

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Publisher Description

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate eventsthe exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.

“The perfect novel ... Freshly mysterious.” The Washington Post


Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don’t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call.
 
In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives.

Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2020
March 24
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
2.1
MB

Customer Reviews

Richard Bakare ,

Moral Compromises

“The Glass Hotel” is another brilliant journey through the human experience by Emily St. John Mandel. Her style and the voice she gives her characters is so distinguishable from others. In this novel we get more of that meta analysis on the human condition, specifically on what it means to find one’s purpose in life. What’s different in this book is the timeline and setting. Grounded and in the present compared to her other future-scape novels.

The contemporary backdrop makes this book even more personable and challenges your understanding of self accountability. The cadre of players across the chapters have their unique personal baggage and their moral inconsistencies. St. John Mandel, however, does not make it easy to judge them blindly. We are in their lived experience and in their struggles completely. All thanks to the careful framing and character development she meters out over the pages.

What really moves me about this book and other St. John Mandel works is that her novels capture the stories of relationships against the bleakest of settings. The Glass Hotel in particular takes us through a deeply human problem. Specifically, the nuanced sequence of events that precedes us making decisions that leave us in a state of moral compromise. What follows is the guilt and isolation from wrestling with that pain. A great read and highly recommended.

DueToCopyrightIssues ,

Wonderful read

Just a great novel with fun characters, nice dialogue, and a thoughtful, melancholy, enjoyable story

angry lisse ,

Quick beach read

I liked the way the characters were woven together and the theme of “is any one really innocent/ aren’t we all complicit “ was interesting. I was waiting for a little bit more mystery and intrigue though that never quite came… overall enjoyable and felt compelled to continue to finish but otherwise likely won’t re-read in the future

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