![]() ![]() We all compartmentalise to some extent: you’re a different person at work than you are at home, a different person with your family than with acquaintances. ![]() What is it about that personality type that interested you? It’s not Madoff’s story but your protagonist, Jonathan Alkaitis, is a very similar character. And here was this fabulously wealthy conman who’d been gambling with retirement savings. There was such popular rage directed against him because we thought our economies were solid and it turned out to be something of a house of cards. Madoff almost seemed like the embodiment of that era. The Glass Hotel is not about Bernie Madoff or his staff, his family or his investors. In particular, I was fascinated by the Bernie Madoff story. It’s a period in recent history that I remember so vividly. Why was that a period you wanted to explore? ![]() The Glass Hotel centres on the 2008 financial crash. It was a bestseller in both the UK and the US, winning the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction, and nominations for the National Book Award and the Pen/Faulkner award. ![]() Her fourth novel, the dystopian fiction of Station Eleven, propelled her to fame in 2014. Emily St John Mandel is a Canadian novelist now residing in New York. ![]()
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