A captivating novel of money, beauty, crime, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it.
Emily St. John Mandel was born in Canada and studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. She is the author of the novels Last Night in Montreal, The Singer's Gun, The Lola Quartet and Station Eleven and is a staff writer for The Millions. She is married and lives in New York.
No one can create beautiful, enmeshed, startlingly clever worlds
the way Mandel does. A new novel by her is a cause for enormous,
tumultuous celebration
*Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under*
A fascinating and affecting read
*Stylist*
Elegant . . . beguiling . . . the joys of The Glass Hotel are
participatory: piecing together the connections and intersections
of Mandel’s human cartography, a treasure map ripped to pieces
*Guardian*
Beautifully written and compelling, it will find its way straight
to your heart.
*Red*
A damn fine novel . . . she keeps me turning pages . . . haunting
and evocative and immersive . . . I guess you can say I am a big
Emily St. John Mandel fanboy
*George R R Martin, author of A Game of Thrones*
A beguiling tale about skewed morals, reckless lives and necessary
means of escape . . . immersive
*The Economist*
I've waited five long years for this - and it was absolutely worth
it . . . [A] stunning and meandering story full of beautiful prose
. . . an extraordinary read
*Prima, Book of the Month*
A mysterious and delicate book . . . The Glass Hotel beautifully
depicts the many lives impacted by the collapse of an ambitious
Ponzi scheme
*Elle Magazine (USA)*
The bestselling author of Station Eleven returns with this tale
about the relationship between a New York financier, his waiter
lover, a threatening note and a mysterious disappearance
*Times, Best books of 2020*
Deeply imagined, philosophically profound . . . The Glass Hotel
moves forward propulsively, its characters continually on the run .
. . Richly satisfying . . . as immersive a reading experience as
its predecessor, finding all the necessary imaginative depth within
the more realistic confines of its world . . . Revolutionary
*The Atlantic*
The Glass Hotel may be the perfect novel for your survival
bunker... Freshly mysterious... Mandel is a consummate, almost
profligate world builder. One superbly developed setting gives way
to the next, as her attention winds from character to character,
resting long enough to explore the peculiar mechanics of each life
before slipping over to the next... That Mandel manages to cover so
much, so deeply is the abiding mystery of this book. The 300 pages
of The Glass Hotel work harder than most 600-page novels... The
disappointment of leaving one story is immediately quelled by our
fascination in the next... The complex, troubled people who inhabit
Mandel’s novel are vexed and haunted by their failings, driven to
create ever more pleasant reflections of themselves in the
glass.
*Ron Charles, The Washington Post*
The question of what is real—be it love, money, place or memory—has
always been at the heart of Ms. Mandel’s fiction... Her narratives
snake their way across treacherous, shifting terrain. Certainties
are blurred, truth becomes malleable and in The Glass Hotel the con
man thrives... Lyrical, hypnotic images... suspend us in a kind of
hallucinatory present where every detail is sharply defined yet
queasily unreliable. A sense of unease thickens... Ms. Mandel
invites us to observe her characters from a distance even as we
enter their lives, a feat she achieves with remarkable skill. And
if the result is a sense not only of detachment but also of
desolation, then maybe that’s the point.
*Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal*
An eerie, compelling follow-up... not your grandmother’s Agatha
Christie murder mystery or haunted hotel ghost story... The novel’s
ongoing sense of haunting extends well beyond its ghosts... The
ghosts in The Glass Hotel are directly connected to its secrets and
scandals, which mirror those of our time... Like all Mandel’s
novels, The Glass Hotel is flawlessly constructed... The Glass
Hotel declares the world to be as bleak as it is beautiful, just
like this novel.
*Rebecca Steinitz, The Boston Globe*
Mandel’s wonderful novel (after Station Eleven) follows a brother
and sister as they navigate heartache, loneliness, wealth,
corruption, drugs, ghosts, and guilt . . . This ingenious,
enthralling novel probes the tenuous yet unbreakable bonds between
people and the lasting effects of momentary carelessness
*Publishers Weekly (starred review)*
Another tale of wanderers whose fates are interconnected . . .
nail-biting tension . . . Mandel weaves an intricate spider web of
a story . . . A gorgeously rendered tragedy.
*Booklist, starred*
Long-anticipated . . . At its heart, this is a ghost story in which
every boundary is blurred, from the moral to the physical . . . In
luminous prose, Mandel shows how easy it is to become caught in a
web of unintended consequences and how disastrous it can be when
such fragile bonds shatter under pressure. A strange, subtle, and
haunting novel.
*Kirkus Reviews, starred*
The Glass Hotel is as tightly constructed as a detective fiction,
with its mysteries, apparently discrete events leading to
revelations, dire consequences . . . a superb performance
*Sydney Morning Herald*
Beautifully written
*The i*
A flawless tale of schadenfreude and Ponzi schemes, greed,
depression and addiction. I loved the main setting on Vancouver
Island, a place wild and safe and sinister at the same time
*Sunday Times (South Africa)*
An elegant, haunting story . . . a unique rumination on guilt,
grief and regret
*The Times*
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