![]() She is also the author of Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and won the 2015 Toronto Book Award. Mandel is a dual American Canadian citizen and currently lives in New York. John Mandel's latest novel, The Glass Hotel, is a timely look at a world derailed by financial fraud It was also named one of Time's 'must-read' books of 2020 and made CBC Books's best fiction of the year list. The Glass Hotelwas a finalist for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. ![]() ![]() Thirteen years later, Vincent disappears from a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Inspired by the Bernie Madoff financial fraud scandal, the novel is a character study of people who profit and the lives that are compromised as a result. Meanwhile, a hooded figure scrawls a cryptic note on a wall in the hotel, and a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis - Leon Prevant - sees the note and is shaken. Her new novel, The Glass Hotel (Knopf, 320 pp., 3 stars, out of four), isn’t as delectably summarizable, not least because an accurate elevator pitch would spoil the act of. When the owner - Jonathan Alkaitis - passes Vincent his card, it becomes the beginning of their story together. Vincent is a bartender in a prestigious hotel on Vancouver Island. The Glass Hotelweaves several narratives together as it tells a story of financial corruption, greed and a massive Ponzi scheme. ![]()
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