The New York Times bestselling novel, from the author of Station Eleven.
'A damn fine novel . . . haunting and evocative and immersive' George R R Martin, author of A Game of Thrones
Vincent is the beautiful 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 later, just after a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship.
Weaving together the lives of these characters, Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the towers 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.
PRAISE FOR STATION ELEVEN
'Glorious, unexpected, superbly written; just try putting it down' The Times
'Visually stunning, dreamily atmospheric and impressively gripping' Guardian
'The most captivating, thought provoking, post-apocalyptic novel you will ever read' Independent on Sunday
'Unusually haunting' Observer
'So compelling, so fearlessly imagined, that I won't have it down for anything' Ann Patchett
'Disturbing, inventive and exciting' Jessie Burton
'Beautifully unsettling' Matt Haig
'A rare find that feels familiar and extraordinary at the same time . . . truly something special' Erin Morgenstern
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elegant, haunting story . . . a unique rumination on guilt, grief and regret