(Here is a hint of the author’s fascination with borders and liminal spaces.) One of these guests is Leon Prevant, a reflection of the role he played in the author’s best-known work, Station Eleven. The Caiette is on the opposite coast and isolated, so that the glass allows guests to imagine they inhabit the wilderness. A journalist in her third novel is assigned a news story about the character who owns the eponymous glass hotel.īut even though the concept of a glass hotel is a reflection, the 2020 version is no New York City skyscraper. A business executive, introduced in her fourth novel offers a hotel guest, in her fifth, some contract work. One character in her second novel is unexpectedly moved by Kirkegaarde’s last words-“Sweep me up”-and another, in her fifth novel, graffities the phrase on a school window. Peer closely: characters move between windows, themes reflect and refract. John Mandel’s storytelling stretches to see into as many windows as possible. The office tower where Anton works is reflected in the glass hotel adjacent: “He tried to watch every reflected window at once, but the angle was such that he could really only make out people on the two floors above and below him.”Įmily St. John Mandel’s world the glass hotel first appears in her second novel, The Singer’s Gun. The Glass Hotel is the title of her fifth novel, and the key to entering novelist Emily St.
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