Emily St. John Mandel Knihy

Osemnásťročný Edwin St. Andrew musí po ostrom výstupe na rodinnej večeri opustiť rodnú krajinu a začať nový život v Kanade. Očarený krásou kanadskej divočiny vstúpi do lesa, kde znenazdajky začuje tóny huslí, ktoré sa ozývajú v termináli vzducholodí, a tento zážitok ním hlboko otrasie. O dve storočia neskôr cestuje slávna spisovateľka Olive Llewellynová po Zemi na knižnom turné. Jej domovom je však druhá mesačná kolónia, mesto bieleho kameňa, špicatých veží a umelej krásy. V texte Olivinho bestselleru o pandémii sa skrýva zvláštna pasáž: muž hrá na husliach za drobné v ozývajúcej sa chodbe terminálu vzducholodí a okolo neho sa týčia stromy v lese. Keď sa Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, detektív z druhej mesačnej kolónie, známej ako Nočné mesto, nechá najať na vyšetrovanie anomálie v severoamerickej divočine, odhalí viacero poznačených životov: stretne sa so synom grófa v exile, ktorý sa zbláznil, so spisovateľkou, ktorá je uväznená ďaleko od domova, pretože Zem sužuje pandémia, a s priateľkou z detstva z Nočného mesta, ktorá rovnako ako Gaspery zahliadne šancu urobiť niečo výnimočné, čo naruší časovú os vesmíru.

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 Traveling 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.

The extraordinary novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Station Eleven 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.Weaving together the lives of these characters, Emily St John Mandel's The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers 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.

From the author of Station Eleven, this is a thrilling novel about love and identity.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven comes The Lola Quartet, a novel full of mystery and moral darkness.

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.