Bücher von Emily St. John Mandel

'Best novel. The big one . . . stands above all the others . . . beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac, a book that I will long remember, and return to.' - George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones.The New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Arthur C. Clarke AwardLonglisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction National Book Awards FinalistPEN/Faulkner Award FinalistStation Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is a bold vision of a dystopian future, frighteningly real, perfect for fans of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the same again. Twenty years later Kirsten, an actress in the Travelling Symphony, performs Shakespeare in the settlements that have grown up since the collapse. But then her newly hopeful world is threatened. If civilization was lost, what would you preserve? And how far would you go to protect it?

The award-winning, bestselling author of &i>Station Eleven&/i> and &i>The Glass Hotel&/i> returns with a novel of art, time, love and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

A captivating novel of money, beauty, crime, 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.

'Ein Meisterwerk' NPR'Eine merkwürdige Erinnerung: Am Strand in Caiette, ich war dreizehn, in der Hand kühl und fremd die brandneue Kamera, mit der ich die Wellen in fünfminütigen Videos filmte; und während ich filme, höre ich mich flüstern: ¿Ich will nach Hause; ich will nach Hause; ich will nach Hause¿, nur wenn ich dort nicht zu Hause war, wo dann?'Emily St. John Mandel erzählt von der Odyssee des modernen Menschen, von Vincent, einer jungen Frau, die ungebunden und nach dem frühen Tod ihrer Mutter entwurzelt ist. Von ihrer Unabhängigkeit, ihrer Wandlungsfähigkeit und nicht zuletzt von der Möglichkeit der Freiheit in unserer krisenhaften Gegenwart. 'Ein eindringliches und erfüllendes Leseerlebnis. Revolutionär.' The Atlantic