Books by 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?

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.

I 2401 sættes tidsdetektiven Gaspery-Jacques Roberts til at efterforske en anomali - og opdager en serie af forbundne liv: en ung britisk aristokrat drevet til galskab i de canadiske skove; en forfatter fanget i en pandemi langt væk hjemmefra, samt en af Gasperys egne barndomsvenner, som har fået en ekstraordinær mulighed, der har potentiale til at skabe ravage i universets tidslinje.Stilhedens hav er en universel og aktuel roman on kunst og kærlighed, der strækker sig gennem tid og rum, fra Vancouver Island i 1912 til en koloni på Månen hundredvis af år senere. "En af [Mandels] bedste romaner og en af hendes hidtil mest tilfredsstillende opdagelsesrejser ind i spekulativ fiktion." The New York Times"Højst ambitiøs i sin spændvidde, men også nærværende og skrevet med en yndefuld og forførende dygtighed." - The Guardian

Hvis al civilisation kollapsede, hvad er da værd at bevare? Og hvor langt ville man gå for at beskytte det?En iskold Toronto-aften falder den berømte skuespiller Arthur Leander om på scenen midt i sit livs rolle som Kong Lear. Samme aften rammer en dødbringende virus hele Nordamerika, og verden er forandret for altid.Tyve år senere fremfører Kirsten, en ung skuespiller i Den omrejsende Symfoni, Shakespeare for de spredte enklaver, som er skudt op efter den tidligere civilisations kollaps. Men i den forandrede verden trues hendes håb af ydre kræfter.Hvad mistede vi under kollapset? Næsten alt, næsten alle, men endnu findes skønheden.

How far would you go for someone you love?The Lola Quartet: Jack, Daniel, Sasha and Gavin, four talented musicians at the end of their high school careers. On the dream-like night of their last concert, Gavin's girlfriend Anna disappears. Ten years later Gavin sees a photograph of a little girl who looks uncannily like him and who shares Anna's surname, and suddenly he finds himself catapulted back to a secretive past he didn't realize he'd left behind. But that photo has set off a cascade of dangerous consequences and, as one by one the members of the Lola Quartet are reunited, a terrifying story emerges: of innocent mistakes, of secrecy and of a life lived on the run. Filled with love, music and thwarted dreams, Emily St. John Mandel's The Lola Quartet is a thrilling novel about how the errors of the past can threaten the future.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Station ElevenAfter shaking off an increasingly dangerous venture with his cousin, Anton Waker has spent years constructing an honest life for himself. But then a routine security check brings his past crashing back towards him. His marriage and career in ruins, Anton finds himself in Italy with one last job from his cousin. But there is someone on his tail and they are getting closer . . . The Singer's Gun follows Anton, Alex Broden - a detective on the trail of a people trafficker, and Elena, caught up in the investigation against her will. Taut and thrilling, it is a novel about identity and loyalty, and the things we are willing to sacrifice for love.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Station ElevenLilia 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.Gorgeously written, charged with tension and foreboding, Emily St. John Mandel's Last Night in Montreal is the story of a life spent at the centre of a criminal investigation. It is a novel about identity, love and amnesia, the depths and limits of family bonds and - ultimately - about the nature of obsession.