Last Night in Montreal, Emily St. John Mandel
Last Night in Montreal, Emily St. John Mandel
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Last Night in Montreal

Author: Emily St. John Mandel

Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan

Unabridged: 7 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2016

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility—when Lilia Albert was a child, her father appeared on the doorstep of her mother's house and took her away. Now, haunted by an inability to remember much about her early childhood, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and eluding the private detective who has dedicated a career to following close behind.

Then comes Eli. When Lilia goes out for a paper and fails to return to their Brooklyn apartment, he follows her to Montreal, not knowing whether he wants to disappear, too, or help her find her way home. But what he discovers is a deeper mystery, one that will set past and present spinning toward collision.

Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!

About The Author

EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL's five previous novels include The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew

First we meet a couple, Lilia and Eli. We learn little of them before they part – Lilia sneaking off without warning. She won't be coming back. From here we get snapshots of Lilia’s life before Eli. She’s a traveller, that’s to say she doesn't stay anywhere for long. She meets men, and sometimes wom......more

Goodreads review by Julie

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 2009, and is a......more

Goodreads review by Katie

Virtually nothing that happens in this novel is plausible. Emily St John Mandel likes taking things to extremes. A father abducts his little girl and spends the next twelve or so years driving her from one motel to another back and forth across America. He talks to her about string theory, the moons......more

Quotes

“Breathtaking. . . . Simply blew me away.”—Nancy Pearl, NPR, “Morning Edition” 
 
 “Emily St. John Mandel is astonishing.” —Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers
  
“Stunning. . . . A brilliant tale of desperation and identity.” —Richmond Review
 
“Lilia is more or less Newton’s first law of motion personified. . . . [A] knot of a novel.” —The New York Times
 
“[Mandel’s] writing is pure elegance.” —Patrick DeWitt, author of Sisters Brothers

“[Mandel] is a stunningly beautiful writer whose complex, flawed, and well-drawn characters linger with you.” —Sarah McCarry, Tor.com
 
“The pages fly.” —Paste
 
“Last Night in Montreal is an exciting debut: a thriller, a love story, and a quiet ballad about life's fleeting connections.” —Quill & Quire
 
“Taut, gripping. . . . The lost souls in this elegantly compelling novel are lost to themselves as much as they are to others.” —Booklist
 
“Mandel is a terrific writer, so good that even the furthest reaches of her tale make perfect sense.” —PopMatters.com
 
“Shockingly real, and so hard to put down.” —Three Guys One Book
 
“Exquisite. . . . At its heart this book is a mystery, a few mysteries; we wait and we wonder while being charmed by Mandel’s intricate narrative dance.” —Foreword magazine

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