Glass Hotel

«Glass Hotel» — an extraordinary novel about the modern world, living at crazy technological speeds, entangled in a complex web of financial flows, stock quotes, and shadow schemes. Mandel portrays it as illusory, like the elegant bulk of an elite hotel in the Canadian wilderness, and cruel, like the inscription made on the panoramic window of its sparkling lobby: «Why don’t you eat some broken glass?» Is it intended for Vincent — the mysterious young girl, whose past also has glass with an inscription, and soon there will be more serious secrets? Or is it perhaps about Paul, Vincent's brother, who is weighed down by unspoken guilt and addiction to drugs? Or is the addressee Jonathan Alchaitis, the mysterious owner of the hotel and head of an exceptionally profitable investment fund, who holds so much money and power?
Here, not only money turns out to be a simulation, but also relationships, achievements, and even desires. However, the omnipresent ghosts seem more real than anything else and bring to the surface the only truth — the burden of pain, guilt, and memory that will ultimately determine the fate of the characters and their choices.