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(0)Emily St. John Mandel
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Macmillan audio
Pub. Date
2020
Description
The Glass Hotel begins at the end, with a fall: a woman plummeting from the deck of a cargo ship, her body quickly swallowed by the sea. It is a death that happens between continents, outside of jurisdictions: a death that will likely go unremarked and unsolved. Years earlier a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, taking with it the finances, hopes, and lives, of hundreds of people. The Glass Hotel is a novel about the interconnected lives tangled...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Moving backwards and forwards in time, from the glittering years just before the collapse to the strange and altered world that exists 20 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...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2015
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2022
Description
The award-winning author of 'Station Eleven' and 'The Glass Hotel' 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 300 years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.