{"title":"Emily St John Mandel","description":"EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL's five previous novels include The Glass Hotel, which has been translated into twenty-five languages, and Station Eleven,  which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction, was the basis of a limited series on HBO Max, and has been translated into thirty-seven languages. She lives in New York City and Los Angeles. EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL is available for select readings and lectures. To inquire about a possible appearance, please contact Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau at speakers@penguinrandomhouse.com or visit prhspeakers.com","products":[{"product_id":"sea-of-tranquility-hardcover","title":"Sea of Tranquility - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - The award-winning, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the Best Books of the Year: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, GoodReads \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of [Mandel's] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdwin 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. 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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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, \u003ci\u003eSea of Tranquility\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101627191519,"sku":"9780593321447","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/N3FldGxzdjhmdUZjRXJKdG9kRldRQT09.webp?v=1781071854"},{"product_id":"station-eleven-paperback","title":"Station Eleven - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Published in 2015 by arrangement with Alfred A. 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