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The Glass Hotel
- Publisher : Picador (29 April 2021); United Kingdom
- Language : English
- Paperback : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1509882839
- ISBN-13 : 978-1509882830
- Reading age : 18 years and up
- Item Weight : 232 g
- Dimensions : 12.9 x 2.1 x 19.7 cm
- Country of Origin : United Kingdom
From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events–a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.
Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the exclusive Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. When New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis walks into the hotel and hands her his card, it is the beginning of their life together.
That same night, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: ‘Why don’t you swallow broken glass.’ Leon Prevent, a shipping executive, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis is running an international Ponzi scheme, moving imaginary sums of money through clients’ accounts.
When Alkaitis's investment fund is revealed to be a Ponzi scheme, 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 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.
