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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
    Station eleven
    • 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 novel2022
      4.1
    • 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 Hotel2019
      3.7
    • 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 Quartet2015
      3.7
    • DAY ONE The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. WEEK TWO Civilization has crumbled. YEAR TWENTY A band of actors and musicians called the Travelling Symphony move through their territories performing concerts and Shakespeare to the settlements that have grown up there. Twenty years after the pandemic, life feels relatively safe. But now a new danger looms, and he threatens the hopeful world every survivor has tried to rebuild. STATION ELEVEN Moving backwards and forwards in time, from the glittering years just before the collapse to the strange and altered world that exists twenty years after, Station Eleven charts the unexpected twists of fate that connect six people: famous actor Arthur Leander; Jeevan - warned about the flu just in time; Arthur's first wife Miranda; Arthur's oldest friend Clark; Kirsten, a young actress with the Travelling Symphony; and the mysterious and self-proclaimed 'prophet'. Thrilling, unique and deeply moving, this is a beautiful novel that asks questions about art and fame and about the relationships that sustain us through anything - even the end of the world.

      Station eleven2014
      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 Gun2009
      3.8
    • 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 Montreal2009
      3.6