The Glass Hotel - A novel. 630 Min.. Nominiert: Scotiabank Giller Prize, 2020. Ungekürzte Ausgabe
Verlag | Penguin Random House |
Auflage | 2020 |
Format | 13,0 x 15,0 x 2,9 cm |
Gewicht | 242 g |
Artikeltyp | Hörbuch |
ISBN-10 | 0525596674 |
EAN | 9780525596677 |
Bestell-Nr | 52559667EA |
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.
The perfect novel ... Freshly mysterious. The Washington Post
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's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme 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 stran ge 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, 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.
Look for Emily St. John Mandel s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!