The award-winning author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel returns with a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment. Sea of Tranquility is virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful.

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from English 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 bestselling 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 aristocrat 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.

PRAISE FOR SEA OF TRANQUILITY

'I could write a thousand words about Emily St. John Mandel, and this book, and this moment but I won't dare spoil it. Truly soul-affirming.' Emma Straub

'A spiraling, transportive triumph of storytelling-sci-fi with soul.' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies

'A complicated and mysterious puzzle concerning the nature of reality solved perfectly, all loose ends connected... Even more boldly imagined than Station Eleven. Exciting to read, relevant, and satisfying.' - Kirkus Reviews

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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?

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2015
2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FINALIST
2015 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST

PRAISE FOR STATION ELEVEN

'BEST NOVEL. The big one . . . One of the 2014 books that I did read stands above all the others: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel . . . beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac, a book that I will long remember, and return to.' George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones

'Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven is that rare find that feels familiar and extraordinary at the same time. This is truly something special' Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus

'Disturbing, inventive and exciting, Station Eleven left me wistful for a world where I still live.' Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist

'It's hard to imagine a novel more perfectly suited, in both form and content, to this literary moment. Station Eleven, if we were to talk about it in our usual way, would seem like a book that combines high culture and low culture-"literary fiction" and "genre fiction." But those categories aren't really adequate to describe the book.' - The New Yorker

'Unmissable . . . A literary page-turner, impeccably paced, which celebrates the world lost.' - Vulture

'Soul-quaking . . . Mandel displays the impressive skill of evoking both terror and empathy. - Los Angeles Review of Books

'A damn fine novel . . . haunting and evocative and immersive' George R R Martin, author of A Game of Thrones

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 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.

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2020

PRAISE FOR THE GLASS HOTEL

'A lovely, beautifully written and constructed novel that I couldn't put down, full of memorable, unusual characters... Mandel's agility with time in this story was a marvel.' Kristin Hannah, author of The Nightingale

'Elegant . . . beguiling . . . the joys of The Glass Hotel are participatory: piecing together the connections and intersections of Mandel's human cartography, a treasure map ripped to pieces' Guardian

'Though its characters were inspired by Bernie Madoff, his victims, and his enablers, there's much more to this novel than ripped-from-the-headlines voyeurism; it's a gorgeously constructed tapestry, each jewellike sentence building to one of the most devastating, moving endings in recent memory. I read it when I was feeling uniquely exhausted by the demands of COVID-era living; I still couldn't put it down.' Vanity Fair

'Long-anticipated... At its heart, this is a ghost story in which every boundary is blurred, from the moral to the physical... In luminous prose, Mandel shows how easy it is to become caught in a web of unintended consequences and how disastrous it can be when such fragile bonds shatter under pressure. A strange, subtle, and haunting novel.' Kirkus Reviews, starred

'The Glass Hotel is a masterpiece, just as good - if not better - than its predecessor. It's a stunning look at how people react to disasters, both small and large, and the temptation that some have to give up when faced with tragedy.' NPR

'A wondrously entertaining novel... The Glass Hotel is never dull. Tracing the permutations of its characters' lives, from depressing apartments in bad neighborhoods to posh Dubai resorts to Manhattan bars, Colorado campgrounds, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is like following the intricate patterns on Moroccan tiles.' Slate

'Mandel's wonderful novel (after Station Eleven) follows a brother and sister as they navigate heartache, loneliness, wealth, corrupt

From the New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven.

After 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.

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 realise 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.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven.

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.

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.

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.

„Das Glashotel ist ein eindringliches und erfüllendes Leseerlebnis, das den Spielraum der Fantasie innerhalb der Grenzen unserer Wirklichkeit auslotet … Revolutionär.“ The Atlantic

„Ein Roman, der so vereinnahmend ist, so perfekt komponiert, dass er seine Leser mit sich fortreißt und ihren Möglichkeitssinns erweitert.“ NPR

„Elegant und verführerisch.“ The Guardian

Ein 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.