The Glass Hotel

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出自獲獎小說《第十一站》（Station Eleven）的作者艾米麗·聖約翰·曼德爾（Emily St. John Mandel）。
這部令人振奮的小說，講述了兩個看似截然不同的事件的閃光交匯點：一起大規模犯罪活動的曝光，以及一名從海洋船上消失的神秘女子。

       

玟森是位調酒師，在溫哥華島最北端的五星級凱燁酒店（Hotel Caiette）工作。在她遇到強納森·阿爾凱蒂斯（Jonathan Alkaitis）的那個晚上，一個戴著兜帽的人在大廳的玻璃牆上潦草地寫下了一則訊息：「你為什麼不吞了那些碎玻璃。」在曼哈頓上空，更大的犯罪正在進行著：阿爾凱蒂斯數十億美元的生意實際上只不過是場霧裡看花的遊戲。當他的計謀瓦解時也抹殺了無數財富並摧毀生命。而一直冒充強納森妻子的玟森則沒入夜色之中。多年後，一名欺詐受害者受僱調查一件懸疑案件：一名女子似乎從停靠港之間的集裝箱的船甲板上消失了。

 

這個引人入勝的故事，攸關危機與生存，作者帶領著讀者穿越了往往隱沒的風景：幾乎是無家可歸之人的露營地、地下電子樂俱樂部、豪華酒店的服務以及聯邦監獄的生活。玻璃酒店充滿了意想不到的美麗，描繪了貪婪與罪惡、愛與妄想、鬼魂與意外的結局，以及我們在生活中尋找意義的無限方式。

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“The perfect novel. . . . Freshly mysterious.” —The Washington Post

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.

Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby’s glass wall: Why don’t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis’s billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call.

In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives.

“Compulsively readable.” —Chicago Review of Books