Sea Of Tranquility
A Novel
Mandel, Emily St. John
u003cbu003eu003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMESu003c/iu003e BEST SELLER WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD The award-winning, best-selling author of u003ciu003eStation Elevenu003c/iu003e and u003ciu003eThe Glass Hotelu003c/iu003e returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred ye...
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u003cbu003eu003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMESu003c/iu003e BEST SELLER WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD The award-winning, best-selling author of u003ciu003eStation Elevenu003c/iu003e and u003ciu003eThe Glass Hotelu003c/iu003e returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eOne of the Best Books of the Year: u003ciu003eThe New York Timesu003c/iu003e, NPR, GoodReads u003cbru003eu003cbru003e"One of [Mandel's] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet." —u003ciu003eThe New York Timesu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eEdwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core. u003cbru003eu003cbru003eTwo centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive's best-selling pandemic 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. u003cbru003eu003cbru003eWhen Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl 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.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eA virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, u003ciu003eSea of Tranquilityu003c/iu003e is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.
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