Emily St. John Mandel was born in British Columbia, Canada. Her most recent novel, Station Eleven, was a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller. Her previous novels were Last Night in Montreal, The Singer’s Gun, and The Lola Quartet/5(). Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel is a stunning debut novel that casts a spell of intrigue over the reader from the very first page. While it's Michaela who's intrigued by heights, Lilia is really the tightrope walker in this brilliant tale of desperation and identity. Last Night in Montreal Quotes Showing of “Forever is the most dizzying word in the English language. The idea of staying in one place forever was like standing at the border of a foreign country, peering over the fence and trying to imagine what life might be like on the other side, and life on the other side was frankly unimaginable.”. ― Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in www.doorway.ru: Emily St. John Mandel.
Emily St John Mandel is a fine writer and one comes across sentences that cry out to be read aloud. However Last Night in Montreal is no Station Eleven. It introduces lots of characters you would love to get to know. But the people of this book remain enigmas. 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. Last Night in Montreal Emily St John Mandel, Author. Unbridled $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. The Singer's Gun; Station Eleven.
Emily St. John Mandel was born in British Columbia, Canada. Her most recent novel, Station Eleven, was a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller. Her previous novels were Last Night in Montreal, The Singer’s Gun, and The Lola Quartet. Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel is a Vintage publication. What an incredibly absorbing story! Again, I have no memory of how this book crossed my path. I can’t remember who recommended it or where I first noticed it. It’s not a new release, originally published back in , and is apparently this author’s debut novel. Last Night in Montreal is full of recurrent themes: the story of Icarus, whose doomed flight fascinates both Lilia and Christopher; the meaning and purpose of travel (are you going to something or away from something?); the significance of language and the limitations it can impose (Lilia is fluent in a number of languages, whereas Eli’s and Michaela’s shared difficulty with French ends up being a hindrance in notoriously English-hostile Montreal). The theme that runs throughout the book.
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