EAN: 9781529065619

THE GLASS HOTEL - EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL TASCHENBUCH

'A damn fine novel . . . haunting and evocative and immersive' George R. R. Martin  author of A
Game of Thrones 'A perfect post-lockdown read . . . Mandel is a terrific storyteller' Sunday
Times 'Elegant . . . beguiling' Guardian Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the exclusive
Hotel Caiette. When New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis walks into the hotel and hands her his
card  it is the beginning of their life together. That same night  a hooded figure scrawls a
note on the windowed wall of the hotel: 'Why don't you swallow broken glass.' Leon Prevant  a
shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis  sees the words from the bar and is
shaken to his core. When Alkaitis's seemingly successful investment fund is revealed to be a
Ponzi scheme  Leon loses his retirement savings in the fallout  but Vincent seemingly walks
away unscathed. Until  a decade later  she disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship
. . . 'Fascinating and affecting' Stylist 'A beguiling tale about skewed morals and reckless
lives . . . immersive' The Economist

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