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"Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: "Why don't 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. Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of northern Vancouver Island, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts."--
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"From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it"--
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Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: 'Why don't 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. Weaving together the lives of these characters, the story moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of northern Vancouver Island, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of the pasts.
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Una novela cautivadora sobre el dinero, la belleza y los fantasmas del pasado. Vincent es camarera en el hotel Caiette, un palacio de cristal y madera de cinco estrellas en la isla de Vancouver, donde su madre desapareció cuando ella era una niña. El dueño del hotel, Jonathan Alkaitis, le da una propina a Vincent y eso marca el inicio de una vida juntos. Sin embargo, la aparición de un inquietante mensaje en el ventanal del hotel pondrá en peligro la felicidad de la nueva pareja. Trece años después, la misteriosa desaparición de una mujer en alta mar se entrelaza con el descubrimiento de una estafa piramidal y arrastra las vidas de Vincent y Alkaitis a un remolino que ninguno de los dos podrá controlar y donde nada es lo que parece. Entre barcos, rascacielos de Manhattan y la naturaleza salvaje de la isla de Vancouver, los personajes se mueven como fantasmas en este deslumbrante retrato de la codicia, la reconciliación con el pasado y la búsqueda del sentido de la vida en un mundo caót
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Стеклянный отель / Эмили Сент-Джон Мандел ; [перевод с английского Яны Барсовой].
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Мандел, Эмили Сент-Джон.
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Na beregu ostrova Vankuver, povernuvshis' litsom k okeanu, stoit fantazm iz dereva i stekla - neveroyatnyy otel', zapryatannyy v kanadskoy glushi. Ot nego, slovno ot klubka, tyanutsya nitochki, iz kotorykh tketsya zaputannaya real'nost', v kotoroy vse ne te, kem kazhutsya, i vse ne to, chem kazhetsya. Zdes' na panoramnom okne sverkayushchego lobbi poyavlyayetsya ugrozhayushchaya nadpis': "Pochemu by tebe ne poyest' bitogo stekla?" Prednaznachena li ona Vinsent - otstranennoy molodoy devushke, v proshlom kotoroy tozhe yest' steklo s nadpis'yu, a skoro poyavyatsya i tayny poser'yezneye? Ili mozhet, delo v Pole, brate Vinsent, kotorogo tyanet vniz nevyskazannaya vina i zavisimost' ot narkotikov? Ili zhe adresat Dzhonatan Alkaytis, tainstvennyy vladelets otelya i rukovoditel' na redkost' pribyl'nogo investitsionnogo fonda, u kotorogo v rukakh tak mnogo deneg i vlasti?
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