by Emily St. John Mandel
Year:2020
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: english
File: pdf, 1.06 MB
Paul is a lone student at the University of Toronto. In a nightclub, he gives tablets to people he hopes to become a friend of them and one of them dies soon after. Paul flees to his half-sister Vincent's apartment. wikipedia
Five years later, Paul and Vincent worked in a hotel on the northern tip of Vancouver Island in the fictional Caiette, which is based on the real hamlet Quatsino. Graffiti is found written on a window in the lobby with an acid marker, saying, "Why don't you swallow broken glass?" Paul is immediately suspected and soon fired. The graffiti appears to be intended for Jonathan Alkaitis, a wealthy investor who owns the hotel. Vincent, who works at the bar, soon enters into a relationship with Alkaitis and moves into his Connecticut home. His life becomes a life of extreme wealth and accommodation of his partner.
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Alkaitis is arrested and it is revealed that his investment success is a Ponzi scheme. His complicit staff reacts in different ways to his impending demise. One flees the country, another writes elaborate confessions. Alkaitis was sentenced to 172 years in prison, where he dreamed of a "counter-life" in which he made different choices. He's often haunted by the people he's defrauded.
Vincent changes his identity and is happy to work as a cook on a cargo ship. She disappears from the ship in the middle of a storm. Her boyfriend on board is suspected of killing her. Leon Prevant, who lost all his savings by investing with Alkaitis, is sent to help investigate.
Paul had some success as a composer. He has a long-standing addiction to heroin.
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From the award-winning author of Station Eleven ("Ingenious." - The New York Times), an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events: the massive collapse of a Ponzi scheme and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.
Vincent is a bartender at The Caiette Hotel, a five-star hotel on the northern tip of Vancouver Island. The night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scribbles a message on the glass wall of the hall: "Why don't you swallow broken glass?" Leon Prevant, a merchant navy executive from Neptune-Avradimis, reads the words and orders a drink to calm down. Alkaitis, the hotel owner and a wealthy investment manager, arrives too late to read the threat, unaware that it was intended for him. He left Vincent a hundred-dollar tip with his business card, and a year later they lived together as husband and wife.
Far above Manhattan, a more serious crime is committed: Alkaitis runs an international Ponzi scheme, which involves transferring imaginary money into his clients' accounts. He holds the savings of an artist named Olivia Collins, the fortunes of a Saudi prince and his extended family, as well as countless pension funds, including that of Leon Prevant. The collapse of the financial empire is as rapid as it is devastating, erasing fortunes and lives, while Vincent walks away into the night. Until, years later, she boarded a Neptune-Avramidis ship, the Neptune Cumberland, and disappeared from the ship between stops.Good reads
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In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the homeless, clandestine electronic clubs, the international shipping trade, service in luxury hotels and life in a federal prison. Unexpectedly beautiful, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways in which we seek meaning in our lives.
