
Sea of Tranquility
- Author Emily St. John Mandel
- Narrator various
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Run Time 5 hours and 47 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Contemporary fantasy, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Science fiction: time travel.
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What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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 PowerA spiralling, transportive triumph of storytelling – sci-fi with soul
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The MerciesAn ambitious time-travelling panorama of pandemics and parallel worlds
GuardianEven more boldly imagined than Station Eleven. Exciting to read, relevant, and satisfying.
KirkusReaders 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
LitHubIngenious . . . 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
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