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The Other Name: Septology I-II

The Glass Hotel

Author: Emily St John Mandel

2021 Longlist

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.

About the Author

Emily St. John Mandel was born in Canada and studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Her novels are Last Night in Montreal, The Singer’s Gun, The Lola Quartet, Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

Librarian’s Comments

This is a beautifully crafted book. Emily St John Mandel has created disparate and diverse characters and situations that make for an absorbing read. She takes high concept ideas and weaves them into an elegant read, while keeping a dreamlike and melancholy quality that ensures the book really resonates with the reader. Limerick City and County Library, Limerick

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Emily St John Mandel

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Limerick City & County Libraries, Ireland

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Knopf Publishing

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