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Sea of Tranquility
- Author
- Emily St. John Mandel
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 28 April 2022
- Run Time
- 5 hours 47 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Science fiction: time travel / time slip, Speculative fiction, Contemporary fantasy / Low fantasy, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: sense of place
- Rating
- 4.1 (7 reviews)
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What to expect
The instant Sunday Times bestseller, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel investigates the idea of parallel worlds and possibilities, and plays with the very line along which time should run.
'So wise, so graceful, so rich' - Naomi Alderman, author of The Power
'Ingenious' - Guardian
Lives separated by time and space have collided, and an exiled Englishman, a writer trapped far from home, and a girl destined to die too young, have each glimpsed a world that is not their own. Travelling through the centuries, between colonies on the moon and an ever-changing Earth, together their lives will solve a mystery that will make you question everything you thought you knew to be true.
From the award-winning author of Station Eleven.
A Best Book of 2022 - Oprah Daily, Barack Obama, Glamour, LA Times
'Brilliant and fiercely original' - Observer
'One of her finest novels' - New York Times
'Transcendent' - Wall Street Journal
Critics Review
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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
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A spiralling, transportive triumph of storytelling - sci-fi with soul
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies
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An ambitious time-travelling panorama of pandemics and parallel worlds
Guardian
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Even more boldly imagined than Station Eleven. Exciting to read, relevant, and satisfying.
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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
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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
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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
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An inventive, haunting, and tender time-travel story that underscores the importance and resilience of art
Vulture
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The four narrators who deliver Mandel’s newest novel create a mesmerizing listening experience full of time shifts. Kirsten Potter shines as an author on a book tour at the beginning of a 2200s pandemic; her increasingly worried observations hit close to home. Dylan Moore brings a perfect mix of malaise and inertia to her characterization of a young woman living in 2020 New York. John Lee effortlessly transports listeners from British Columbia in 1918 to the moon colonies of the twenty-fifth century. Arthur Morey’s beautiful, throaty narration of the final section, about a man from the moon colonies whose life is changed forever by a mysterious government job, is haunting and familiar. These interlocking storylines offer a poignant and surprising exploration of love, art, and the beauty of everyday life.
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User Reviews
Book 4.1
Narration 4.6
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Details
- Author
- Emily St. John Mandel
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 5 hours 47 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 April 2022
- ISBN
- 9781529083538
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Science fiction: time travel / time slip, Speculative fiction, Contemporary fantasy / Low fantasy, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: sense of place
- Rating
- 4.1(7 reviews)
- Narration
- 4.6(7 reviews)
Synopsis
The instant Sunday Times bestseller, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel investigates the idea of parallel worlds and possibilities, and plays with the very line along which time should run. 'So wise, so graceful, so rich' - Naomi Alderman, author of The Power'Ingenious' - GuardianLives separated by time and space have collided, and an exiled Englishman, a writer trapped far from home, and a girl destined to die too young, have each glimpsed a world that is not their own. Travelling through the centuries, between colonies on the moon and an ever-changing Earth, together their lives will solve a mystery that will make you question everything you thought you knew to be true.From the award-winning author of Station Eleven.A Best Book of 2022 - Oprah Daily, Barack Obama, Glamour, LA Times'Brilliant and fiercely original' - Observer'One of her finest novels' - New York Times'Transcendent' - Wall Street Journal
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