Emily St. John Mandel: Glass Hotel (2020, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
320, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 10 Luglio 2020 da Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Ponechavam bez bodovyho hodnoceni.
Jinak me to prislo prozatim nejslabsi od autorky (treti v poradi).
Prostredni cast me moc nebavila, zbytek v klidu, ale Jak More klidu, tak Stanice 11 jsou zajimavejsi.
Co se napít střepů?
Avviso sul contenuto maybe spoilers or not but just in case
I gave up on this once but decided to finish it because of supposed easter eggs that connected this to Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility. It turns out there were common elements, but they seemed more like recycled incidental characters and situations than some kind of connective thread. we get a quick peek at the author of the Station Eleven graphic novel, working on it, maybe.
I think Mandel is a very good writer; her descriptions are compelling and she creates characters that have the potential to become interesting. but they don't. She tries to give minor events dramatic significance that doesn't really play but the central event of the story falls flat. Pages and pages are devoted to bland, amoral mediocrities while the few sympathetic characters get a few short passages. oh, and ghosts ()?
This novel is a creative and well-written blend of real and imagined stories involving the Bernie Madoff scandal and an interesting female protagonist named Vincent Smith. I enjoyed it very much, and admire the nonlinear storytelling style that was laced with mystery. I absolutely recommend it.
I felt like I never really understood what this book was about the whole time I was reading it, and yet I found it strangely compelling. I got sad as I saw the end of the book approaching. I think I'll be returning to this one.
