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 instant Sunday Times bestseller, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel is a story of parallel worlds and possibilities that plays with the very line along which time should run. 'So wise, so graceful, so rich' - Naomi Alderman, author of The Power 'Ingenious' - Guardian Lives separated by time and space have collided, and an exiled Englishman, a writer trapped far from home, and a girl destined to die too young, have each glimpsed a world that is not their own. Travelling through the centuries, between colonies on the moon and an ever-changing Earth, together their lives will solve a mystery that will make you question everything you thought you knew to be true. From the award-winning author of Station Eleven. A Best Book of the Year - Guardian, Oprah Daily, Barack Obama 'Brilliant and fiercely original' - Observer 'One of her finest novels' - New York Times 'Transcendent' - Wall Street Journal
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.
"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"-- Provided by publisher
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.