the glass hotel by emily st john mandel review

After this incident, he had gone back to Vincent, and both of them had started working in Jonathan’s hotel, Caiette. It turns out Paul had also been involved in selling Ecstasy back in 1999, on which a famous band singer had overdosed and died. Little did Walter know that Paul and Vincent were related! Walter, the manager, tries to hide the graffiti with a small plant and fires Paul because he suspects Paul to be behind the mess. Meanwhile, a guest at the hotel, Leon Prevant, who turns out to be one of the hotel investors, gets disturbed at the sight of these words. Thus, a few words lead to a mystery unraveling itself layer by layer! Just like another ordinary day, the beautiful bartender, Vincent, roams around the corridors only to find herself staring at the words “why don’t you swallow the broken glass” marked in acid on the window.

The story is set in Vancouver’s renowned hotel, Caiette, owned by Jonathan Alkaitis, where he finds his lady love, Vincent. A tale inspired by Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme fraud, The Glass Hotel, is full of mystery and suspense, hooking you till the end! The Glass Hotel is published by Picador and is described as an “exhilarating novel with genius characters and original storyline” – perfect for Station Eleven fans.

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It is quite literally the workplace of the damned. And, because that man works in the Gradia Building, Station Eleven’s readers instinctively know that it isn’t just a business address named for a big airline. Their worlds are blown to pieces not by the Georgia flu, but by a man they believed to be a trusted counselor, even a dear friend. The people of The Glass Hotel, like their counterparts in Station Eleven, do not know what is about to hit them until it is too late.

In fiction, worlds are created and collapsed, god-like, while characters remain blissfully ignorant until they no longer can be. Mandel is having a bit of fun there, creating a world where her Georgia flu pandemic never happened, where these two - along with billions of other fictional people - lived on, blithely unaware of the fates the author’s imagination had visited upon them. One of Station Eleven’s peripheral characters becomes part of The Glass Hotel’s plot, and a more central character in the earlier book appears here as a peripheral one.

The glass hotel by emily st john mandel review