The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Description

The Glass Hotel is a 2020 novel by Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel's fifth novel, and the first since winning the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2015. It follows the aftermath of a disturbing graffiti incidents: the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at a hotel on Vancouver Island and the collapse of an international Ponzi scheme.

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 is running an international Ponzi scheme, moving imaginary sums of money through clients' accounts. When the financial empire 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, the business of international shipping, service in luxury hotels, and life in 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.

About the Author

Emily St. John Mandel is an author, born (1979) and raised on Denman Island off the west coast of British Columbia. She attained popularity with her fourth novel Station Eleven which was nominated for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, it won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Toronto Book Award. Her novel The Glass Hotel was longlisted for the Giller Prize in 2020. Her other works are-- Last Night in Montreal (2009), The Singer's Gun (2010), The Lola Quartet (2014).

She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

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Author: Emily St. John Mandel

Publisher: Harper Collins

Publishing Date: 24 March 2020

Edition Language: English

Genre: Ghost Mystery, Traditional Detective Mysteries, Psychological Fiction

ISBN: 9781443455725 (original hardback)

ISBN-10: 0525521143

ISBN-13: 978-0525521143

Pages: 320