Glass Hotel

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Pubblicato il 2020

ISBN:
978-1-5098-8280-9
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4 stelle (4 recensioni)

Um enredo em que suspense, sobrevivência e culpa medem forças lado a lado com amor, desilusão e consequências absolutamente inesperadas.

Vincent é a bela empregada de bar do Hotel Caiette, um palácio de vidro e cedro na extremidade mais a norte da Ilha de Vancouver. Jonathan Alkaitis, um financeiro de Nova Iorque, é o proprietário do hotel. Quando entrega a Vincent o seu cartão de visita acompanhado de uma gorjeta, começa assim uma vida em conjunto.

Nesse mesmo dia, uma figura encapuçada escrevinha um recado na parede de vidro do hotel: «Porque não engoles pedaços de vidro?» Leon Prevant, executivo de transportes marítimos de uma firma chamada Neptune-Avramidis, vê o recado no bar do hotel e fica profundamente abalado.

Treze anos mais tarde, logo após a implosão de um imenso esquema Ponzi em Nova Iorque, Vincent desaparece misteriosamente do convés de um navio da Neptune-Avramidis.

Cruzando as vidas destas personagens, …

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Review of 'The Glass Hotel' on 'Goodreads'

4 stelle

Great story, characters, settings & writing. Among other things, I really enjoyed the exploration of liminal spaces, of haunting/being haunted, and of life vs counterlife ... and characters imagining alternate paths unfolding if they had done something different. Also interesting ideas about the different "countries" we inhabit - money, sickness, misfortune, shadow, etc. Now I'm really looking forward to reading Sea of Tranquility.

ha recensito The Glass Hotel di Emily St. John Mandel

Sad, Poignant, Beautiful

5 stelle

This book is so beautiful, so insightful, and so sad. This story is a deep-dive into the different worlds that we can often fall into. It's an examination of wealth, poverty, addiction, guilt/shame, stealing to get by, making art for art's sake, making art for ambition's sake, greed, dread, and so many more things.

As someone whose family was significantly impacted by the 2008 financial crisis (and let's be honest, whose wasn't), I found that entering back into the world of watching white collar criminals squirm was like a warm blanket. There are a few scenes in the book where various financial criminals are overtaken by waves of dread and it felt like such a balm to my soul to experience their suffering as a reader and then to remove myself back into the cozy world of my own little reading nook.

The Glass Hotel is not a feel-good book, …