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From the author of Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel is the story of the lives caught up in two very different tragedies: a woman disappearing from a container ship, and a massive Ponzi scheme imploding in New York.<BR><BR>'Beguiling' - The Guardian<BR>'Elegant, haunting' - The Times<BR>'A damn fine novel . . . evocative and immersive' - George R. R. Martin<BR><BR>Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the exclusive Hotel Caiette. When New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis walks into the hotel and hands her his card, it is the beginning of their life together.<BR><BR>That same night, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: 'Why don't you swallow broken glass.' Leon Prevant, a shipping executive, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core.<BR><BR>When Alkaitis's investment fund is revealed to be a Ponzi scheme, Leon loses his retirement savings in the fallout, but Vincent seemingly walks away unscathed. Until, a decade later, she disappears from the deck of one of Leon's ships . . .<BR><BR>**Exit Party, the seventh novel from global bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel, is available to pre-order now**

'An eminently satisfying thriller' - The Washington Post<BR><BR>The Singer's Gun is a taut, thrilling novel about a former criminal, the grip of the past and the things we are willing to sacrifice for love. From Emily St. John Mandel, the author of Station Eleven.<BR><BR>Anton has spent years constructing an honest life for himself. He and his cousin once undertook a dangerously risky criminal venture together - something he thought he'd left behind. But then a routine security check brings his past crashing back towards him.<BR><BR>His marriage and career in ruins, Anton finds himself in Italy with one last job from his cousin. But he has good reason to look over his shoulder. There is someone on his tail, and they are quickly getting closer . . .<BR><BR>'Mandel's talent is clearly visible from the get-go' - LA Times<BR><BR>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.<BR><BR>**Exit Party, the seventh novel from global bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel, is available to pre-order now**

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.<BR><BR>“The perfect novel ... Freshly mysterious.” —The Washington Post<BR><BR>Vincent 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.<BR> <BR>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.<BR><BR>Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!

Dein Leben kann mehr als Dein Plan von ihmEin Luxushotel an der westlichen Küste Kanadas, jenseits der großen Fenster das Meer, Inseln, die Vegetation des Nordens. Ein Refugium für gestresste Städter, für die junge Barkeeperin Vincent aber ein Ort mit schmerzhaften Erinnerungen. Als eine alle Anwesenden erschütternde Botschaft auf eine der Scheiben der Lobby geschmiert wird, ergreift sie die Gelegenheit und geht mit dem Investor Jonathan Alkaitis nach New York. Was sie nicht weiß: Alkaitis Vermögen beruht auf Betrug, und als er untergeht, reißt er seine Anleger mit hinab in die Tiefe, und Vincents Leben wird ein weiteres Mal in unvorhergesehene Fahrwasser gelenkt.Mit Das Glashotel hat Emily St. John Mandel einen Roman über die Odyssee des modernen Menschen geschrieben, einen Roman über Entwurzelung und Wandel, über das Ergreifen von Gelegenheiten und scheiternde Pläne und nicht zuletzt über unsere lebenslange Suche nach jenem Ort, den wir Heimat nennen können.

The New York Times bestselling novel, from the author of Station Eleven.<BR> 'A damn fine novel . . . haunting and evocative and immersive' George R. R. Martin<BR><BR> Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: 'Why don't you swallow broken glass.' Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called 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.<BR><BR> Weaving together the lives of these characters, Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the towers of Manhattan and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.

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.<BR><BR>One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads <BR><BR>“One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” —The New York Times<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.

'Percolates with suspense' - The New York Times<BR><BR>Full of shocking twists and secrets, The Lola Quartet asks the universal question: how far would you go for someone you love? From Emily St. John Mandel, the author of Station Eleven.<BR><BR>When Gavin discovers the existence of a young girl from his hometown who looks uncannily like him - and shares the surname of his high-school girlfriend, Anna - he is propelled back into the past. Could this girl be his daughter? But there are other secrets from the past that remain unanswered. Gavin was part of a jazz group known as 'The Lola Quartet', and Anna disappeared on the night of their last concert together.<BR><BR>As Gavin goes deeper to seek answers from those he left behind, he will uncover truths far darker than he ever imagined.<BR><BR>'Elegant and hypnotic . . . Mandel brilliantly modulates the heightening suspense in a novel that remains, above all, an elegy for lost innocence' - The Washington Post<BR><BR>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.<BR><BR>**Exit Party, the seventh novel from global bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel, is available to pre-order now**

Werden wir die Erde vermissen?Die Menschheit kommt nicht zur Ruhe. 1912 wird Edwin St. Andrew, Adelsspross aus England mit einer ketzerischen Haltung zum britischen Imperialismus, in die britische Kolonie Kanada exiliert und sucht dort sein Glück. 2203 bricht die berühmte Schriftstellerin Olive Llewellyn eine weltweite Lesereise ab, um zurück zu ihrer Familie auf den nun kolonialisierten Mond zu fliegen, als erste Meldungen über eine Pandemie laut werden. 2401, es gibt inzwischen Kolonien auf den Monden des Saturns, soll Gaspery-Jacques Roberts durch die Zeit reisen, um einer Anomalie nachzugehen, die vermuten lässt, dass die gesamte Geschichte der Menschheit nichts weiter ist als eine Simulation. Mit erzählerischer Brillanz und Leichtigkeit verwebt Emily St. John Mandel so große Themen wie die Kolonialisierung der Erde und des Weltraums, Pandemie und Technologie zu einem organischen Ganzen. Ein Roman, der ebenso lustvoll zu lesen ist wie er zum Nachdenken - auch und insbesondere über unsere Gegenwart - anregt. 

One of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.<BR><BR>An atmospheric novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse. Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven is now an HBO Max original TV series.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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 . . .<BR><BR>If civilization was lost, what would you preserve? And how far would you go to protect it?<BR><BR>The New York Times Bestseller<BR>Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award<BR>Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction<BR>National Book Awards Finalist<BR>PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist<BR><BR>'Disturbing, inventive and exciting, Station Eleven left me wistful for a world where I still live' - Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist<BR><BR>'Best novel. The big one . . . stands above all the others' - George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones<BR><BR>'Mandel's beautiful depiction of the survival of human culture and art in a post-apocalyptic world, perfect for fans of The Handmaid's Tale' - Cosmopolitan<BR><BR>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.<BR><BR>**Exit Party, the seventh novel from global bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel, is available to pre-order now**