EAN: 9780525562948

THE GLASS HOTEL - EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL KARTONIE...

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 PostVincent 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!

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