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THE GLASS HOTEL - EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL (HÖRBUCH)

LONGLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZEThe Glass Hotel may be the perfect novel for your survival
bunker.--Ron Charles  The Washington PostA New York Times  Entertainment Weekly  Newsweek 
Bustle  Buzzfeed  GoodReads  Houston Chronicle  Writer's Digest  Medium  Washington Independent
Review of Books  The Millions  Boston Globe  USA Today  and Women's Day Most Anticipated Book
of 2020From 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 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 is
running an international Ponzi scheme  moving imaginary sums of money through clients'
accounts. 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.

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