Books by Emily St. John Mandel
language
English
review 1: Wonderful literary post-apocalyptic story--haunting, heartbreaking, yet hopeful. I'm not a great fan of nonlinear plots, but this worked for me--although sometimes it took me a few lines to be oriented to time and place. Involving, well-drawn characters; complex plot that's chara...
language
English
review 1: This book came together nicely in the final few scenes, but it struck me as too one-note and superficial throughout. All major characters are saddened and weakened by a past mistake, and everyone struggles to cobble together a new identity. This trope wouldn't necessarily be a pr...
language
English
review 1: Ms Mandel is a very talented writer and her first novel is very impressive. I was totally immersed in this book and was quite surprised that it caught me so off guard. I loved the story because there was a certain measure of mystique and the characters were all a bit off kilter...
language
English
review 1: While I think of this book as being nihilistic, especially in the beginning, it has really stayed with me since I read it a year ago. Although there seemed to be some improbable developments, what Kafka-esque novel doesn't contain things the reader finds hard to believe. The Good...
language
English
review 1: I picked this up after reading Station Eleven - another fabulous book by Emily St. John Mandel. This is such an unusual story, full of tragic but beautiful characters and framed within the scenery of a frigid Canadian landscape that is described so well, I read most of this while...
language
English
review 1: while not as accomplished as the superb Station Eleven which brought the author to my attention and made me get all her novels to date, The Singer's Gun is a page turner that one cannot put down, full of interesting characters - most notably Anton and his desperate quest for "nor...