Emily St John Mandel - Böcker

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. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half brother, Paul, scrawls a note on a windowed wall of the hotel: Why don't you swallow broken glass. Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company named 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, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of northern Vancouver Island, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.

En djärv, mörkt glittrande roman som utspelar sig i de kusliga dagarna efter civilisationens kollaps. Station elva berättar den trollbindande historien om en grupp skådespelarnomader som strövar omkring över de utspridda utposterna runt Stora sjöarna och som riskerar allt för konst och mänsklighet.

En vinternatt i Toronto dör skådespelaren Arthur Leander av en hjärtattack i Kung Lears fjärde akt. Hans död väcker lite uppmärksamhet eftersom en snabbt spridande influensapandemi just har nått Nordamerika, med en uppskattad dödlighet på över 99 %. Inom några dagar är samhället under upplösning, inom några veckor har elnätet och telekommunikationerna kollapsat, och inom några månader har civilisationen som vi känner den nått sitt slut. Femton år senare, då Symfonin med skådespelarna framför Shakespeare och klassisk musik i de spridda bosättningarna efter civilisationens kollaps, försvinner två av Symfoniens musiker från en stad som styrs av en våldsam profet. De tvingas nu att fly bortom gränserna för det kända territoriet. Berättelsen flätar samman liv och öden för en rad personer i denna postapokalyptiska värld.

Station elva är en mänsklig berättelse. En historia om fascinerande samband och relationer, om vår besatthet av föremål och vårt behov av konst (Eftersom överlevnad är otillräckligt ). Livet kan fortsätta och fortsätter, och människorna strävar efter de saker de gjorde tidigare: att underhålla, skratta, älska och återuppbygga.

"Emily St. John Mandels bok är ett kärleksbrev till oss människor (...) kanske den vackraste dystopin jag har läst" - MARKUS LARSSON, AFTONBLADET

"Vackert skriven och enastående elegisk; en bok som jag länge kommer att minnas" - GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

"Fantastiskt visuell, drömmande atmosfärisk och imponerande gripande" - THE GUARDIAN

"Underbar, oväntad, utmärkt skriven; försök att lägga ifrån dig den" - THE TIMES

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal-an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive's best-selling pandemic 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. When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe. A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.

A novel of art, memory, and ambition, "Station Eleven" tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.

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. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half brother, Paul, scrawls a note on a windowed wall of the hotel: "Why don't you swallow broken glass." Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company named 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, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of northern Vancouver Island, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.