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Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel

Sea of Tranquility By Emily St. John Mandel

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel


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The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

Sea of Tranquility Summary

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
'So wise, so graceful, so rich' - Naomi Alderman, author of The Power
'Ingenious' - Guardian 'One of her finest novels' - New York Times 'Transcendent' - Wall Street Journal

The award-winning author of Station Eleven returns with a story of time travel that precisely captures the reality of our current moment . . .

In 1912, eighteen-year-old Edwin St. Andrew crosses the Atlantic, exiled from English polite society. In British Columbia, he enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and for a split second all is darkness, the notes of a violin echoing unnaturally through the air. The experience shocks him to his core.

Two centuries later Olive Llewelyn, a famous writer, is traveling all over Earth, far away from her home in the second moon colony. Within the text of Olive's bestselling 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.

When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in time, he uncovers a series of lives upended: the exiled son of an aristocrat 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.

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel is a novel that investigates the idea of parallel worlds and possibilities, that plays with the very line along which time should run. Perceptive and poignant about art, and love, and what we must do to survive, it is incredibly compelling.

Sea of Tranquility Reviews

It is heaven to be immersed in the waters of Mandel's imagination, she is always able to see past the present moment to the futures it contains and the past that informed it. Her perspective is so wise, so graceful, so rich and - despite everything - comforting. I loved Sea of Tranquility -- Naomi Alderman, Women's Prize-winning author of The Power
A spiralling, transportive triumph of storytelling - sci-fi with soul -- Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies
An ambitious time-travelling panorama of pandemics and parallel worlds * Guardian *
Even more boldly imagined than Station Eleven. Exciting to read, relevant, and satisfying. * Kirkus *
Readers of Mandel's Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel will not be disappointed by her latest, a generous and elegant novel about art and family and time travel * LitHub *
Ingenious . . . Hugely ambitious in scope, yet also intimate and written with a graceful and beguiling fluency . . . It conveys the vertiginous sense of a reality that transcends a single existence and feels simultaneously poignant, celebratory and uncanny * Guardian *
A time travel epic: a soaring story of connections through the ages. Mandel has this knack for grounding science fiction in the here and now, something that fills her writing with profound and life-affirming humanity * Vogue Australia *
An inventive, haunting, and tender time-travel story that underscores the importance and resilience of art * Vulture *

About Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel was born in Canada and studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Her novels include Last Night in Montreal, The Singer's Gun, The Lola Quartet, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility. She lives in New York City.

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GOR012229367
9781529083491
1529083494
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Used - Like New
Hardback
Pan Macmillan
2022-04-28
272
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