The Glass Hotel

No one can create beautiful, enmeshed, startlingly clever worlds the way Mandel does – Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under
Elegant, haunting … a unique rumination on guilt, grief and regret * The Times *
Elegant … beguiling … the joys of The Glass Hotel are participatory: piecing together the connections … a treasure map ripped to pieces * The Guardian *
Beautifully written and compelling, it will find its way straight to your heart. * Red *
A perfect post-lockdown read … Mandel is a terrific storyteller * Sunday Times *
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. I look forward to whatever she writes next. – George R R Martin, author of A Game of Thrones
A fascinating and affecting read * Stylist *
A beguiling tale about skewed morals, reckless lives and necessary means of escape. * The Economist *
I’ve waited five long years for this - and it was absolutely worth it. In this stunning and meandering story full of beautiful prose … Set in Vancouver Island’s dazzling surroundings, this is an extraordinary read. – Prima, Book of the Month
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 – The 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 [Station Eleven] … Revolutionary * The Atlantic *
The perfect novel for your survival bunker … 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 … That Mandel manages to cover so much, so deeply is the abiding mystery of this book * Washington Post *
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 *
Lyrical, hypnotic images … suspend us in a kind of hallucinatory present where every detail is sharply defined yet queasily unreliable. – Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal
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
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) *
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 *
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)

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

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