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The Glass Hotel

byEmily St. John Mandel

Who is this book for? Readers who enjoy intricate plots involving crime, psychological depth, and character-driven narratives.

Topics Missing personsWhite-collar crimeMoral compromiseGreedGuiltFamily dynamicsIllusionsGhosts of the pastBetrayalWealth and powerSurvival
MoodSuspenseful, Mysterious
Female protagonist
RomanceMinor Subplot
ViolenceMild
From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, 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, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of northern Vancouver Island, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.

Language

en

Published on

01/01/2020

Pages

301

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

9780525521143

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