Emily St. John Mandel

"One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five...

Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, 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,...

A post-apocalyptic saga spanning multiple timelines, this limited drama series tells the stories of survivors of the devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what's been lost.

"Una novela cautivadora sobre el dinero, la belleza y los fantasmas del pasado. Vincent es camarera en el hotel Caiette, un palacio de cristal y madera de cinco estrellas en la isla de Vancouver, donde su madre desapareció cuando ella era una niña. El dueño del hotel, Jonathan Alkaitis, le da una propina a Vincent y eso marca el inicio de una vida juntos. Sin embargo, la aparición de un inquietante mensaje en el ventanal del hotel pondrá en peligro...

A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins, featuring Emily St. John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado, and more This anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction asks: What would you save from the fire? In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it? Out of the Ruins features stories from China Miéville, Emily St. John Mandel, Clive Barker, Carmen Maria...