Emily St. John Mandel explore l'interconnexion de nos vies et comment nos choix résonnent à travers le temps. Son œuvre examine souvent comment les individus réagissent aux crises et cherchent un sens et une continuité dans un monde instable. Elle écrit avec une observation aiguë et une précision lyrique, permettant aux lecteurs de se connecter profondément avec ses personnages et leurs parcours. Sa prose est célébrée pour sa capacité à créer des récits captivants qui offrent également de profondes réflexions sur la condition humaine.
Dans un monde où la civilisation s’est effondrée suite à une pandémie foudroyante, une troupe d’acteurs et de musiciens nomadise entre de petites communautés de survivants pour leur jouer du Shakespeare. Un répertoire qui en est venu à représenter l’espoir et l’humanité au milieu de la désolation.
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.
From the author of Station Eleven, this is a thrilling novel about love and identity.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven comes The Lola Quartet, a novel full of mystery and moral darkness.
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.
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.