1. Littérature générale

EAN13
9781529065619
Éditeur
Picador
Date de publication
27 janvier 2021
Dimensions
19,7 x 13 x 2,1 cm
Poids
230 g

The Glass Hotel

Mandel, Emily St Joh

Picador

Prix public : 14,80 €

<p><b>The<i> New York Times</i> bestselling novel, from the author of <i>Station Eleven</i>.</b><br> <b>A damn fine novel . . . haunting and evocative and immersive George R. R. Martin</b><br><br> Vincent is the beautiful 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, its the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: Why dont 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.<br><br> Weaving together the lives of these characters, Emily St. John Mandels <i>The Glass Hotel</i> moves between the ship, the towers 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.</p>
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