The Glass Hotel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780525521143)

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From 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.

"The perfect novel ... Freshly mysterious." --The Washington Post

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's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme 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, 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.

Look for Emily St. John Mandel's bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!

Author: Emily St John Mandel
ISBN-10: 0525521143
ISBN-13: 9780525521143
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/24/2020
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2019 pg. 61
Publishers Weekly 11/11/2019
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2019 pg. 74
Booklist 01/01/2020 pg. 35
Library Journal 02/01/2020 pg. 80
Shelf Awareness 04/03/2020