The glass hotel

Author

Emily St John Mandel

Call Number

• FICTION MAND (CEN, OSH, POW, WSQ)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

Physical Description

301 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes her his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, 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 later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Their lives paint a picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.

Notes

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.