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The glass hotel / Emily St. John Mandel.

By: Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020Description: 301 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Glass hotel.DDC classification:
  • 823.6 23 M272
Contents:
Vincent in the ocean -- I always come to you -- The hotel -- A fairy tale -- Olivia -- The counterlife -- Seafarer -- The counterlife -- A fairy tale -- The office chorus -- Winter -- The counterlife -- Shadow country -- The office chorus -- The hotel -- Vincent in the ocean.
Awards:
  • Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist, 2020
Summary: "From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, 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"--Summary: "Vincent is a 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, Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers 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"--
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كتاب كتاب Central Library المكتبة المركزية 823.6 M272 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available قاعة الكتب 51434

Vincent in the ocean -- I always come to you -- The hotel -- A fairy tale -- Olivia -- The counterlife -- Seafarer -- The counterlife -- A fairy tale -- The office chorus -- Winter -- The counterlife -- Shadow country -- The office chorus -- The hotel -- Vincent in the ocean.

"From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, 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"--

"Vincent is a 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, Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers 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"--

Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist, 2020