With its shattered narrative, the joys of The Glass Hotel are participatory: piecing together the connections and intersections of Mandel’s human cartography, a treasure map ripped to pieces.” - The Guardian The Glass Hotel becomes stronger, and more powerful, with every page. “Simply stunning, a boldly experimental work which hooks the reader from its first pages, wending to a powerfully emotional conclusion. Weaving together the lives of these characters, 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. Thirteen years later, Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the 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 and is shaken to his core. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the beginning of their life together.

The owner of the hotel is New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada About the Bookįrom the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events-the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea

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