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Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the beginning of their life together. That same day, 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 note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years …

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.

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14 editions

Paperback, 301 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2020 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:: 978-1-4434-5573-2
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Literary Fiction
Mystery

Reviews

PiiaB@kirja.casa reviewed Lasihotelli by Emily St. John Mandel

Vähän sekava

2.0 stars

Tämäkin oli maagisen kesäkisan lukuhaasteessa (tai joku St. John Mandelin kirja).

Kirjassa pompitaan ajassa aika railakkaasti ja siinä on vähän liikaa henkilöitä omaan makuuni. Lopussa tarina vähän punoutuu yhteen, mutta ei mielestäni mitenkään kattavasti ja päällimmäisenä tunteena mieleeni jäi hämmennys. En usko, että paranisi lukemalla uudestaan, jotenkin vaan tämän kirjailijan kirjoitustyyli ei sovi minulle.

quaad@bookwyrm.social reviewed The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

This book infuriated me but i still finished it.

2.0 stars

Content warning maybe spoilers or not but just in case

I gave up on this once but decided to finish it because of supposed easter eggs that connected this to Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility. It turns out there were common elements, but they seemed more like recycled incidental characters and situations than some kind of connective thread. we get a quick peek at the author of the Station Eleven graphic novel, working on it, maybe.

I think Mandel is a very good writer; her descriptions are compelling and she creates characters that have the potential to become interesting. but they don't. She tries to give minor events dramatic significance that doesn't really play but the central event of the story falls flat. Pages and pages are devoted to bland, amoral mediocrities while the few sympathetic characters get a few short passages. oh, and ghosts ()?

Sharyl reviewed The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Beautiful life study...

4.0 stars

This novel is a creative and well-written blend of real and imagined stories involving the Bernie Madoff scandal and an interesting female protagonist named Vincent Smith. I enjoyed it very much, and admire the nonlinear storytelling style that was laced with mystery. I absolutely recommend it.

Koven Smith reviewed The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Strangely compelling

4.0 stars

I felt like I never really understood what this book was about the whole time I was reading it, and yet I found it strangely compelling. I got sad as I saw the end of the book approaching. I think I'll be returning to this one.

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