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1912. Edwin St. Andrew a dix-huit ans lorsqu'il traverse l'Atlantique en bateau à vapeur, mis au ban de la bonne société. Il se laisse porter jusqu'en Colombie-Britannique où, fasciné par la beauté de la nature sauvage, il est témoin d'une expérience qui le choque profondément. 2020. Un compositeur, lors d'un concert, présente aux spectateurs une étrange vidéo filmée par sa sœur où la forêt cède brièvement la place à l'obscurité, aux notes d'un violon et à un bruit évoquant une pression hydraulique. 2203. Une écrivaine est en tournée de promotion de son livre sur la Terre alors qu'une pandémie menace d'éclater. Deux siècles plus tard, Gaspery-Jacques Robert est embauché pour enquêter sur une anomalie susceptible de prouver la théorie de la simulation. Il découvre une série de vies bouleversées et entreverra la chance de faire quelque chose d'extraordinaire qui perturbera la chronologie de l'univers. Un fabuleux roman sur l'art, le voyage dans le temps, l'amour et la mort, par l'autrice de L'hôtel de verre et de Station Eleven (Prix des libraires du Québec).

Vincent ​egy ötcsillagos szálló pultosaként dolgozik a Vancouver-sziget legészakibb csücskén. Azon az estén, amikor a dúsgazdag Jonathan Alkaitis odalép a nőhöz, és kezdetét veszi közös életük, egy kapucnis alak az alábbi üzenetet firkálja a hotel üvegfalára: Nyelj üvegszilánkot. Eközben Manhattan felhőkarcolókkal teli világában egy sokkal súlyosabb bűncselekményt követnek el: Alkaitis több millió dolláros üzlete nem más, mint piramisjáték, amikor pedig fény derül a csalásra, rengeteg ember élete dől romba. Az Alkaitis feleségének szerepét játszó Vincent látszólag sértetlenül megússza, egy évtizeddel később azonban nyom nélkül eltűnik egy konténerhajó fedélzetéről… A kanadai Emily St. John Mandel számára negyedik könyve, a Tizenegyes állomás hozta el a világhírt, a mű rangos díjak sorát gyűjtötte be, és HBO Max-sorozat is készült belőle. Következő regénye, Az üvegszálló több mint húsz nyelven jelent meg, és virtuóz felépítésével, érzékeny látásmódjával még tovább bővítette a szerző olvasótáborát.

Die Welt ist aus den Fugen »Die Grippe war damals wie eine Neutronenbombe auf der Erde explodiert, und es folgte eine Schockwelle - die ersten unsäglichen Jahre, als alle sich auf Wanderschaft begaben, bis den Leuten klar wurde, dass es keinen Ort auf der Welt gab, an dem das Leben so weiterging wie zuvor...« Zwanzig Jahre nach dem Kollaps der Zivilisation zieht Kirsten mit einer Schauspieltruppe durch die Landschaften einer verwüsteten Welt. Sie geben Shakespeare-Stücke in den Siedlungen, die seither entstanden sind. Ein Neuanfang scheint endlich möglich. Doch in St. Deborah by the Water, an den Ufern des Lake Michigan, erhebt sich eine ungeahnte Gefahr. Ein gewaltbereiter Prophet bedroht die sprießenden Hoffnungen der Überlebenden auf eine sichere Welt.Emily St. John Mandel ist die Autorin von sechs Romanen, zuletzt Das Meer der endlosen Ruhe. Zu ihren früheren Romanen gehören Das Glashotel, das von Präsident Barack Obama zu einem seiner Lieblingsbücher des Jahres 2020 gewählt wurde, auf der Shortlist für den Scotiabank Giller Prize stand und in 23 Sprachen übersetzt wurde, und Station Eleven, das in die Endauswahl für den National Book Award und den PEN/Faulkner Award kam, 2015 unter anderem mit dem Arthur C. Clarke Award ausgezeichnet wurde, in 36 Sprachen übersetzt ist und als limitierte Serie von HBO Max ausgestrahlt wurde. Sie lebt in New York City.

Nel 1912 Edwin St. John St. Andrew è un ragazzo di diciotto anni, che sente il peso dell'appartenenza alla nobiltà inglese. Dopo un dissidio con la sua famiglia, attraversa l'Atlantico, per giungere sino in Canada. Qui, incantato dalla bellezza della natura selvaggia, si inoltra in una foresta e, all'improvviso, sente le note di un violino e cade in uno stato di trance. È un'esperienza che lo sconvolge nel profondo e che cambierà per sempre la sua vita. Nel 2203, una famosa scrittrice di nome Olive Llewellyn è in tour per presentare il suo libro. Sta viaggiando per tutto il pianeta, ma la sua casa è la Colonia Due lunare nei pressi del Mare della Tranquillità, un luogo di pietra bianca, di torri, guglie e di una inquietante bellezza artificiale. Nel suo romanzo più noto c'è una strana scena: un uomo suona il violino nel corridoio di un terminal aeroportuale, mentre gli alberi di una foresta si ergono intorno a lui. Nel 2403, Gaspery-Jacques Roberts è un detective dell'Istituto del Tempo di Città Notturna, così, successivamente, è stata ribattezzata la Colonia Due. Viene assunto per indagare su un'anomalia spazio- temporale, sul caso di alcune vite sconvolte da una strana apparizione, tra cui quelle di Edwin St. John St. Andrew e Olive Llewellyn. Emily St. John Mandel dimostra ancora una volta il suo straordinario talento letterario, la sua impetuosa capacità di affabulazione, giocando con le epoche, sfidando le leggi della fisica e raccontando una storia incredibilmente umana, commovente, che rimarrà a lungo nel cuore dei lettori.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads “One of [Mandel's] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” —The New York TimesEdwin 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.

Sur une île près de Vancouver, dans un hôtel à la beauté lugubre dressé au milieu d'une nature sauvage, convergent une poignée de destins fêlés. Alors qu'on attend la venue du riche propriétaire, un étrange graffiti apparaît sur la vitre de la réception. « Et si vous avaliez du verre brisé? » Ce soir-là, une jeune femme prénommée Vincent officie au bar et le milliardaire lui offre une proposition qui fait tout basculer. Treize ans plus tard, elle disparaîtra du pont d'un cargo au large de la Mauritanie. Au fil d'un récit à relais qui nous entraîne dans une multitude de lieux interlopes — coulisses de Wall Street, terrains de camping pour les quasi-sans-abri, clubs undergrounds, hôtels de luxe, prisons fédérales —, on prend peu à peu la mesure de l'onde de choc créée par l'effondrement d'un réseau financier pyramidal. Dans cette fiction habilement ficelée qui précède les événements de Station Eleven (Prix des libraires du Québec 2016), Emily St. John Mandel prend un malin plaisir à brouiller les pistes et à convoquer les fantômes. Elle expose en outre les rouages de l'avidité et de la culpabilité, de l'amour et des illusions qui nous lient aux inconnus, ouvrant au passage une porte sur toutes les vies que nous n'avons pas vécues.

18 short stories take us to the end of the world in this anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction featuring bestselling authors like Emily St. John Mandel, China Miéville, Samuel R. Delaney, Clive Barker, and more! In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it? Featuring new and exclusive post-apocalyptic short stories, as well as classics of the genre, editor Preston Grassmann takes us through the fall and beyond—to the things that are created after. This anthology includes stories by: • China Miéville • Emily St. John Mandel • Clive Barker • Carmen Maria Machado • Charlie Jane Anders • Samuel R. Delaney • Ramsey Campbell, • Lavie Tidhar • Kaaron Warrern • Anna Tambour • Nina Allan • Jeffrey Thomas • Paul Di Filippo • Ron Drummond • Nikhil Singh • John Skipp • Autumn Christian • Chris Kelso • Rumi Kaneko • Nick Mamatas • D.R.G. Sugawara Calling on the finest traditions of post-apocalyptic fiction, this anthology asks us what makes us human, and who we will be when we emerge out of the ruins?

Vincent fa la barista all'Hotel Caiette, un prestigioso cinque stelle nel nord dell'isola di Vancouver. Una notte, all'improvviso, uno sconosciuto incide sulla vetrata dell'atrio un messaggio inquietante: Perché non ti ingoi una scheggia di vetro? Jonathan Alkaitis, il finanziere proprietario dell'hotel, quella sera arriva troppo tardi per leggere la minaccia, e ignaro di tutto passa la serata con Vincent. Quando si salutano, le lascia una mancia di cento dollari e il suo biglietto da visita. Un anno dopo vivono insieme come marito e moglie. A Manhattan Alkaitis gestisce un giro di investimenti miliardari che non è altro che un gigantesco gioco di specchi. Quando il sistema crolla, travolge le vite di tutte le persone che gli avevano affidato i risparmi. Vincent, che finora ha recitato la parte della bella moglie, sparisce improvvisamente, per ricomparire anni dopo a bordo di una nave mercantile coinvolta negli inganni di Alkaitis. Tra fortune principesche, club di musica elettronica, hotel di lusso e prigioni federali, Emily St. John Mandel firma un thriller sull'avidità e il senso di colpa, sull'amore e la disillusione, e sugli infiniti modi in cui, sempre e ostinatamente, cerchiamo di dare un senso alla nostra vita. “Un romanzo perfetto, pieno di mistero.” The Washington Post “L'hotel di cristallo esplora i legami tenui ma indissolubili tra le persone e gli effetti profondi e duraturi di ogni piccola e momentanea disattenzione.” Publishers Weekly “Non dite semplicemente ‘magari un giorno ci andrò'. Chiamate. Prenotate. Andate a guardare il panorama che si vede dall'Hotel di cristallo. E godetevi il soggiorno.” Chicago Review of Books

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.“The perfect novel... Freshly mysterious.” —The Washington PostVincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don't you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan's wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call. In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives.Look for Emily St. John Mandel's bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!

Parce que survivre ne suffit pas. Le premier jour Éclosion de la grippe géorgienne. On estime qu'elle pourrait contaminer 99% de la population. Deux semaines plus tard La civilisation s'est effondrée. Vingt ans après Une troupe présente des concerts et des pièces de théâtre aux communautés regroupées dans des campements de fortune. La vie semble de nouveau possible. Mais l'obscurantisme guette, menaçant les rêves et les espérances des survivants. Roman phénomène publié dans une vingtaine de pays, Station Eleven illustre brillamment que l'art, l'amitié, la résilience et ce qui nous unit permettent de tout traverser, même une fin du monde.

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!

This Anniversary Edition of Station Eleven, a finalist for the National Book Award and named a Best Book of the Twenty-First Century by the New York Times, celebrates ten years of this now iconic novel with a new color illustration and a guide to “The Mandelverse”An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. It is fifteen years after a flu pandemic wiped out most of the world's population. Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony, a small troupe moving over the gutted landscape, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. But when they arrive in the outpost of St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave. Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the disaster brought everyone here, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty, telling a story about the relationships that sustain us.

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!

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, “a gripping story, full of moral ambiguities, where deception and betrayal become the norm, and where the expression ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma'is lifted to new heights” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).Everyone Anton Waker grew up with is corrupt. His parents dealt in stolen goods, and he was a successful purveyor of forged documents until he abandoned it all in his early twenties, determined to live a normal life, complete with career, apartment, and a fiancée who knows nothing of his criminal beginnings. He's on the verge of finally getting married when Aria—his cousin and former partner in crime—blackmails him into helping her with one last job. Anton considers the task a small price for future freedom. But as he sets off for an Italian honeymoon, it soon becomes clear that the ghosts of his past can't be left behind so easily, and that the task Aria requires will cost him more than he could ever imagine.Look for Emily St. John Mandel's bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!