Glass hotel
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The new book by Emily St. John Mandel has made it to the list of the most anticipated books of 2020 and topped the charts of global bestsellers. "The Glass Hotel" is an extraordinary novel about the modern world living at insane technological speeds, entwined in a complex web of financial flows, stock quotes, and shadow schemes. Mandel portrays it as illusory, like an elegant pile of an elite hotel in the Canadian wilderness, and cruel, like the inscription made on the panoramic window of its sparkling lobby: "Why don't you eat broken glass?" Is it meant for Vincent - a mysterious young woman with a past marked by glass with an inscription, and soon there will be even more serious secrets? Or perhaps it's about Paul, Vincent's brother, who is dragged down by unspoken guilt and drug addiction? Or is the recipient Jonathan Alkaitis, the mysterious owner of the hotel and the exceptionally profitable investment fund, who holds so much money and power in his hands? Simulation here involves not only money but also relationships, achievements, and even desires. However, the ubiquitous ghosts seem more real than anything else and bring to the surface the only true thing - the burden of pain, guilt, and memory that will ultimately determine the fate of the characters and their choices. "The beauty and power of 'The Glass Hotel' lie precisely in the apparent absence of any beauty, in its transparency and artlessness. The story of how the fates of very different, very real, very alive and understandable people, who have been touched by a great tragedy either at the core or tangentially, is constructed with incredible, almost Chekhovian skill, where the unspoken squeezes along the lines of the text but does not hinder it from developing as if by its own will, without the weight of the author's opinion. This is a novel-breath, a very complex thing in its simplicity." - Anastasia Zavozova
Author:
Author:Mandel Emily Saint John
Cover:
Cover:Hardcover with flaps
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Reference books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Dimensions:
Dimensions:20x12.5x2 cm
Series:
Series:Mainstream. Main trend
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
Product type:
Product type:Partial lacquer
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-04-192967-1
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