“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.
Mandel currently lives in New York City.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 John Mandel is the author of five books, including Station Eleven, Last Night in Montreal, Sea of Tranquility, and The Glass Hotel. 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.Įmily St. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night. When the financial empire collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. 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. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island.
Audiobook Length: 10 hours and 29 minutes
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