Synopsis
‘Last Night in Montreal is literary crime fiction of the highest order’ - The Sunday Times
The stunning novel about life on the run, the debut novel of the bestselling author of Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel.
Lilia has always been an enigma. When she disappears without trace, her lover Eli follows a mysterious trail of correspondence to Montreal, where he hopes to discover the truth. But this isn’t the first time Lilia has disappeared, or someone has tried to find her . . .
Last Night in Montreal is a breathtakingly plotted and intelligent game of cat-and-mouse; between lovers, between detectives and trails, and of lost people attempting to capture the elusive truth of their own lives.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
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“The debut of a lyrical voice, singing its heart out . . . a beautiful work”Darin Strauss, author of CHANG & ENG
“Last Night in Montreal is literary crime fiction of the highest order. It is unusual to encounter a novel that so vividly creates a sense of life on the run . . . Intense and lyrical, the novel asks unsettling questions about who is the real victim of the tragedy that looms over the characters.”The Sunday Times, The Sunday Times
“Mandel is an exuberant storyteller”New York Times, New York Times
“Finely wrought . . . What we're made to ponder is the mystery of human connection: how it is born, how it fades and dies and revives, how love defines us or leaves us undone”Globe and Mail, Globe and Mail
