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Emily St. John Mandel

    1 janvier 1979

    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.

    Emily St. John Mandel
    The Lola Quartet
    The Singer's Gun
    Sea of tranquility
    Sea of Tranquility : a novel
    Station Eleven (Television Tie-in)
    Station Eleven
    • Sea of tranquility

      • 272pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      In 1912, eighteen-year-old Edwin St. Andrew crosses the Atlantic, exiled from English polite society. In British Columbia, he enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and for a split second all is darkness, the notes of a violin echoing unnaturally through the air. The experience shocks him to his core. Two centuries later Olive Llewelyn, a famous writer, is traveling all over Earth, far away from her home in the second moon colony. Within the text of Olive''s bestselling 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.

      Sea of tranquility2022
      4,1
    • Station Eleven (Television Tie-in)

      • 352pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding 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. Now an original series on HBO Max. Over one million copies sold! Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed. Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!

      Station Eleven (Television Tie-in)2021
      4,1
    • 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.

      Glass Hotel2019
      3,7
    • The Lola Quartet

      • 273pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility—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 bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!

      The Lola Quartet2015
      3,7
    • Station Eleven

      • 475pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      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.

      Station Eleven2014
      4,1
    • Aria voor een verleden

      • 272pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      Anton Waker komt uit een familie van kleine criminelen. Samen met zijn nicht Aria handelt hij in valse paspoorten en ID-bewijzen. Maar Anton besluit uit het criminele leventje te stappen, vervalst nog wel even een Harvard-diploma voor zichzelf, accepteert een goedbetaalde baan bij een degelijk bedrijf en hij verlooft zich. Vlak voor zijn bruiloft en huwelijksreis naar Italië, wordt Anton echter gechanteerd door Aria: hij moet tijdens zijn huwelijksreis meewerken aan een laatste klus, anders vertelt ze Antons nieuwe echtgenote over zijn criminele verleden.

      Aria voor een verleden2011
      3,3
    • The Singer's Gun

      • 304pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      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

      • 240pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      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!

      Last Night in Montreal2009
      3,6