About the book: year / New from Emily St. John Mandel was included in the list of the most anticipated books of 2020 and topped the world bestseller ratings. "The Glass Hotel" is an extraordinary novel about in the modern world, living at crazy technological speeds, intertwined with an intricate web of financial flows, stock quotes and shadowy schemes. Not only money is a simulation here, but also relationships, achievements and even desires. But the omnipresent ghosts seem more real than anything else and bring to the surface the only true thing - the burden of pain, guilt and memory, which will ultimately determine the fate of the heroes and their choice. On the shores of Vancouver Island, facing the ocean, stands a phantasm of wood and glass - an incredible hotel hidden in the Canadian wilderness. From him, as if from a ball, strings stretch from which a confused reality is woven, in which everyone is not what they seem, and everything is not what it seems. Here, a menacing sign appears on the picture window of the sparkling lobby: “Why don’t you eat broken glass?” Is she destined for Vincent, an aloof young girl whose past also contains glass with an inscription, and who will soon have more serious secrets? Or maybe it's about Paul, Vincent's brother, who is being dragged down by unspoken guilt and drug addiction? Or is the recipient Jonathan Alkaitis, the mysterious hotel owner and head of an extremely profitable investment fund, who has so much money and power in his hands? The perfect read for locking yourself in a bunker with him. Washington Post This is a perfectly constructed and incredibly elegant novel about how wonderful the life we ​​will no longer live is. Anastasia Zavozova