Emily St. John Mandel

The sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of King Lear marks the beginning of the world's dissolution, in a story told at various past and future times from the perspectives of the actor and four of his associates. By the author of The Lola Quartet. 50,000 first printing.

Station Eleven

A novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal--an experience that shocks him to his core.

Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive's best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.

When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.

A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.'

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Sea of Tranquility

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it. 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, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of northern Vancouver Island, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.

The Glass Hotel

From the New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven Lilia has been leaving people behind her entire life. Haunted by her inability to remember her early childhood, and by a mysterious shadow that seems to dog her wherever she goes, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and friends along the way. But then she meets Eli, and he's not ready to let her go, not without a fight. Gorgeously written, charged with tension and foreboding, Emily St. John Mandel's Last Night in Montreal is the story of a life spent at the centre of a criminal investigation. It is a novel about identity, love and amnesia, the depths and limits of family bonds and - ultimately - about the nature of obsession.

Last Night in Montreal

Returning home to Florida, Gavin Sasaki takes a job with his sister brokering foreclosed properties when he discovers a child who may be his daughter by his ex-girlfriend who fled 10 years ago after stealing money from a drug dealer. 15,000 first printing.

The Lola Quartet

Everyone Anton Waker grew up with is corrupt. His parents deal in stolen goods and his first career is a partnership venture with his cousin Aria selling forged passports and social security cards to illegal aliens. Anton longs for a less questionable way of living in the world and by his late twenties has reinvented himself as a successful middle manager. Then a routine security check suggests that things are not quite what they appear. And Aria begins blackmailing him to do one last job for her. But the seemingly simple job proves to have profound and unexpected repercussions. As Anton's carefully constructed life begins to disintegrate around him, he's forced to choose between loyalty to his family and his desires for a different kind of life. When everyone is willing to use someone else to escape the past, it is up to Anton, on the island of Ischia, to face the ghosts that travel close behind him. Emily St. John Mandel follows up her electric debut with a spellbinding novel of international crime, false identities, the depths and limits of family ties, and the often confusing bonds of love. Taut with suspense, beautifully imagined, full of unexpected corners, desperate choices, betrayals and halftruths with deadly consequences, The Singer's Gun explores the dangerous territory between one's moral compass and the heart's desire.

The Singer's Gun

Mr. Thursday

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel—Gavin Sasaki was a promising young journalist in New York City until the day he was fired for plagiarism. The last thing he wants is to sell foreclosed real estate for his sister Eilo’s company in their Florida hometown, but he’s in no position to refuse her job offer. Plus, there’s another reason to go home: Eilo recently met a ten-year-old girl who looks very much like Gavin and has the same last name as his high-school girlfriend, Anna, who left town abruptly after graduation. Determined to find out if this little girl might be his daughter, Gavin sets off to track down Anna, starting with the three friends they shared back when he was part of a jazz group called “The Lola Quartet.” As Gavin pieces together their stories, he learns that Anna has been on the run for good reason, and soon his investigation into her sudden disappearance all those years ago takes a seriously dangerous turn. Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel, Sea of Tranquility, coming soon!

THE LOLA QUARTET

Gavin Sasaki's a promising young journalist in New York City, until he's fired in disgrace following a series of unforgivable lapses in his work. It's early 2009, and the world has gone dark very quickly: the economic collapse has turned an era that magazine headlines once heralded as the second gilded age into something that more closely resembles the Great Depression. The last thing Gavin wants to do is return to his hometown of Sebastian, Florida, but he's drifting toward bankruptcy and is in no position to refuse when he's offered a job by his sister, Eilo, a real estate broker who deals.

Werden wir die Erde vermissen? Die Menschheit kommt nicht zur Ruhe. 1912 wird Edwin St. Andrew, Adelsspross aus England mit einer ketzerischen Haltung zum britischen Imperialismus, in die britische Kolonie Kanada exiliert und sucht dort sein Glück. 2203 bricht die berühmte Schriftstellerin Olive Llewellyn eine weltweite Lesereise ab, um zurück zu ihrer Familie auf den nun kolonialisierten Mond zu fliegen, als erste Meldungen über eine Pandemie laut werden. 2401, es gibt inzwischen Kolonien auf den Monden des Saturns, soll Gaspery-Jacques Roberts durch die Zeit reisen, um einer Anomalie nachzugehen, die vermuten lässt, dass die gesamte Geschichte der Menschheit nichts weiter ist als eine Simulation. Mit erzählerischer Brillanz und Leichtigkeit verwebt Emily St. John Mandel so große Themen wie die Kolonialisierung der Erde und des Weltraums, Pandemie und Technologie zu einem organischen Ganzen. Ein Roman, der ebenso lustvoll zu lesen ist wie er zum Nachdenken – auch und insbesondere über unsere Gegenwart – anregt.

Roman | Der neue große Roman der New York Times-Bestsellerautorin

Das Meer der endlosen Ruhe

Roman

Das Glashotel

From the New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven. Lilia has been leaving people behind her entire life. Haunted by her inability to remember her early childhood, and by a mysterious shadow that seems to dog her wherever she goes, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and friends along the way. But then she meets Eli, and he's not ready to let her go, not without a fight. Gorgeously written, charged with tension and foreboding, Emily St. John Mandel's Last Night in Montreal is the story of a life spent at the centre of a criminal investigation. It is a novel about identity, love and amnesia, the depths and limits of family bonds and - ultimately - about the nature of obsession.

Una novela cautivadora sobre el dinero, la belleza y los fantasmas del pasado. Vincent es camarera en el hotel Caiette, un palacio de cristal y madera de cinco estrellas en la isla de Vancouver, donde su madre desapareció cuando ella era una niña. El dueño del hotel, Jonathan Alkaitis, le da una propina a Vincent y eso marca el inicio de una vida juntos. Sin embargo, la aparición de un inquietante mensaje en el ventanal del hotel pondrá en peligro la felicidad de la nueva pareja. Trece años después, la misteriosa desaparición de una mujer en alta mar se entrelaza con el descubrimiento de una estafa piramidal y arrastra las vidas de Vincent y Alkaitis a un remolino que ninguno de los dos podrá controlar y donde nada es lo que parece. Entre barcos, rascacielos de Manhattan y la naturaleza salvaje de la isla de Vancouver, los personajes se mueven como fantasmas en este deslumbrante retrato de la codicia, la reconciliación con el pasado y la búsqueda del sentido de la vida en un mundo caótico. La nueva novela de la ganadora del Arthur C. Clarke y finalista del National Book Award y el PEN/Faulkner Award. "De una misteriosa originalidad. [...] Una ficción literaria soberbia." The Washington Post "Mandel planta su literatura en el cruce entre la realidad y la fantasía." The New Yorker "Un relato cautivador sobre vidas interconectadas." People "Una novela bellamente escrita y construida, [...] llena de momentos memorables y personajes excepcionales." Kristin Hannah "Un libro deslumbrante y absorbente cuyos puntos fuertes son su vitalidad desbordante y el propio alcance de la novela." The Economist "Una novela ingeniosa y cautivadora." Publisher's Weekly "Mandel despliega una prosa luminosa." Kirkus Reviews

El hotel de cristal

The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman—a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State—searches for answers. Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, the shanty towns, and the Red Cross tents as they walk across Silverlake to a party. The mood is ecstatic inside the apartment, people drink and dance, a woman wears a silver dress, pleated like tinfoil. And then: A shift. A bewildered twin, an uncanny doppelganger stumbles through the crowd and out into the night, and Kareem, the party’s host, vanishes into thin air. As Ari Waker unravels the mystery of this inexplicable night, Emily St. John Mandel unfurls a story that takes us from a future America splintered by civil war to the seaside cliffs of Greece where weapons dealers hide in an elegant resort, and from the domed city of Paris to a colony on the moon. An unforgettable literary feat, Exit Party is a novel about the price of safety, the perils of the surveillance state, a requiem for a world not unlike our own, and a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change.

Exit Party

From the bestselling author of Station Eleven, Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel’s new mind-bending epic: a story of crimes committed and loves lost across space and time. 2031. America is at war with itself, but for the first time in weeks there is some hope: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is lifted, and everyone in the city is going to a party. Ari, newly released from prison, arrives with her friend Gloria just as a fragile new era begins. But there are people at the party who shouldn’t be there. Something is very wrong . . . Years later, living a different life in Paris, Ari remains haunted by that night. Whatever happened at the party fractured her sense of reality – and may hold the key to a very different world. Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel’s electrifying new novel about freedom and surveillance, art and survival, love and loss in a broken world.

the brand new novel from the bestselling author of Station Eleven

Sur l'ïle de Vancouver, se dresse un hôtel aux murs de verre, seulement accessible par la mer. Il est fréquenté par une clientèle exclusive qui veut rompre avec "la civilisation connectée". Là, pas de wifi, pas de portable, on est au bout du monde. Paul, aspirant compositeur, et sa soeur Vincent, vidéaste amateure, travaillent tous à l'hôtel Caiette. Un soir, alors qu'on attend l'arrivée du milliardaire new-yorkais Jonathan Alkaitis, le gérant découvre avec horreur un tag gravé sur l'une des parois transparentes: "Et si vous avaliez du verre brisé?" Qui est l'auteur de ce graffiti menaçant? Est-il destiné à quelqu'un? Dans ce havre de luxe, des gens se croisent, des destins se font et se défont. A l'hôtel Caiette, mais aussi à Vancouver et à New York, des vies vont prendre un tour imprévu et souvent dramatique. Comme un papillon au Brésil peut causer une tempête au Texas, un verre au bar de l'hôtel Caiette peut ruiner une existence...

L'hôtel de verre

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, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, the story moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of northern Vancouver Island, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.

The glass hotel

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‘Het glazen hotel’ van Emily St. John Mandel, een troostrijk en revolutionair roman aldus ‘the Atlantic’, verschijnt nu, na het prijswinnende ‘Station Elf’ uit 2014. Er wordt een doodsbedreiging gegrift in de glazen muur van een vijfsterrenhotel op een eiland voor de kust van British Columbia. In Amerika stort een gigantisch ponzifraudesysteem in, met verstrekkende gevolgen voor ontelbare mensen. Jaren later verdwijnt een vrouw op mysterieuze wijze van het dek van een vrachtschip. Terwijl deze ogenschijnlijk verschillende gebeurtenissen ingenieus met elkaar verweven worden, beweegt ‘Het glazen hotel’f zich moeiteloos tussen het schip, de wolkenkrabbers van Manhattan en de wildernis van Vancouver Island. Tegelijkertijd schetst Emily St. John Mandel een adembenemend beeld van hebzucht en schuld, liefde en wanen.

Het glazen hotel

From the bestselling author of Station Eleven, Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel's new mind-bending epic: a story of crimes committed and loves lost across space and time. 2031. America is at war with itself, but for the first time in weeks there is some hope: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is lifted, and everyone in the city is going to a party. Ari, newly released from prison, arrives with her friend Gloria just as a fragile new era begins. But there are people at the party who shouldn't be there. Something is very wrong . . . Years later, living a different life in Paris, Ari remains haunted by that night. Whatever happened at the party fractured her sense of reality - and may hold the key to a very different world. Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel's electrifying new novel about freedom and surveillance, art and survival, love and loss in a broken world.

From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility—when Lilia Albert was a child, her father appeared on the doorstep of her mother's house and took her away. Now, haunted by an inability to remember much about her early childhood, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and eluding the private detective who has dedicated a career to following close behind. Then comes Eli. When Lilia goes out for a paper and fails to return to their Brooklyn apartment, he follows her to Montreal, not knowing whether he wants to disappear, too, or help her find her way home. But what he discovers is a deeper mystery, one that will set past and present spinning toward collision. Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!

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