Press release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Toronto; October 5, 2020)

HarperCollinsCanada is thrilled to announce that Emily St. John Mandel’s #1 bestselling novel The Glass Hotel has been shortlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

The much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling, award-winning Station Eleven, the instant national bestseller The Glass Hotel is a novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events―a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. It is a captivating story of money, beauty, ghosts and moral compromise, seamlessly weaving together the characters’ lives. Mandel paints a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.

Television rights for The Glass Hotel were acquired by NBCUniversal International Studios and will be produced by Lark Productions. Mandel is writing the screenplay.

“It’s wonderful to see this #1 bestseller on the Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist. Like Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel is a riveting read and has made a strong connection with readers across the country. We are very proud to publish such an accomplished writer. Congratulations to Emily and to her editor, Senior Editorial Director Jennifer Lambert!” said Iris Tupholme, SVP and Executive Publisher, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

Emily St. John Mandel is the author of five novels. Her 2014 novel, Station Eleven, was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award; won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toronto Book Award and the Morning News Tournament of Books; has been translated into thirty-four languages; and is being adapted for a television mini-series on the streaming platform HBO Max. A previous novel, The Singer’s Gun, was the 2014 winner of the Prix Mystère de la Critique in France. Her short fiction and essays have been anthologized in numerous collections, including The Best American Mystery Stories 2013. She is a staff writer for The Millions. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.