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Emily St. John Mandel

    January 1, 1979

    Emily St. John Mandel explores the interconnectedness of our lives and how our choices resonate across time. Her work often examines how individuals respond to crises and seek meaning and continuity in an unstable world. She writes with keen observation and lyrical precision, allowing readers to deeply connect with her characters and their journeys. Her prose is celebrated for its ability to craft compelling narratives that also offer profound reflections on the human condition.

    Emily St. John Mandel
    Last Night in Montreal
    The Glass Hotel
    The Lola Quartet
    The Singer's Gun
    Sea of Tranquility : a novel
    Cornelsen Senior English Library: Station Eleven - Ab 11. Schuljahr. Textband mit Annotationen
    • Set in the days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time—from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains—this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.

      Cornelsen Senior English Library: Station Eleven - Ab 11. Schuljahr. Textband mit Annotationen
      4.1
    • Sea of Tranquility : a novel

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      The award-winning author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel presents a novel that spans from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a moon colony three centuries later, exploring themes of art, time, love, and plague. Eighteen-year-old Edwin St. Andrew, exiled from society after a dinner party outburst, embarks on a transatlantic journey. Captivated by the Canadian wilderness, he is stunned by the sound of a violin echoing in an airship terminal. Fast forward two centuries, and renowned writer Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour across Earth, though her true home is a moon colony characterized by its artificial beauty. Within her best-selling pandemic novel lies a peculiar passage about a man playing the violin in a terminal surrounded by trees. Meanwhile, detective Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, operating in the shadowy Night City, is tasked with investigating an anomaly in North America. His inquiry reveals disrupted lives: an earl's exiled son descending into madness, a writer stranded during a pandemic, and a childhood friend who, like Gaspery, sees a chance to alter the universe's timeline. This novel intricately weaves time travel and metaphysics, capturing the essence of our contemporary reality with both tenderness and intellectual depth.

      Sea of Tranquility : a novel
      4.1
    • The Singer's Gun

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      From the author of Station Eleven, this is a thrilling novel about love and identity.

      The Singer's Gun
      3.8
    • The Lola Quartet

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      From the New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven comes The Lola Quartet, a novel full of mystery and moral darkness.

      The Lola Quartet
      3.7
    • The Glass Hotel

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      The extraordinary novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Station Eleven Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure 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, Emily St John Mandel's The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.

      The Glass Hotel
      3.7
    • Last Night in Montreal

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      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.

      Last Night in Montreal
      3.6