The Glass Hotel

b>The extraordinary novel fr/b>b>om the bestselling, award-winning author of Station Eleven/b>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.

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No one can create beautiful, enmeshed, startlingly clever worlds the way Mandel does. A new novel by her is a cause for enormous, tumultuous celebration Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under

Product details

• Authors: JOHN MANDEL, Emily St John Mandel, Emily St. John Mandel
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781509882816
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-8281-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Series: 201 GRAND
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Adult & contemporary romance, British Columbia, contemporary romance, Ghost, Political / legal thriller, Literary, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Corporate crime / white-collar crime, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Dystopian, Romance / Contemporary, Thrillers / Legal, Romance / Billionaires, British Columbia South Coast: Greater Vancouver