Emily St. John Mandel
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English
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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,...
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English
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Recently fired, Gavin Sasaki returns to his Florida hometown to start a job with his sister Elio's real estate company. His move is also motivated by the appearance of a ten-year-old girl who looks like him and has the same last name as his high school girlfriend, Anna, who left town abruptly after graduation. Determined to find out if the girl might be his daughter, Gavin sets off to find Anna, starting with the three friends they shared back when...