Sea of Tranquility.

St. John Mandel, Emily.

ISBN 10: 1529083494 / ISBN 13: 9781529083491

Published by Picador, London, 2022

About this Item

Signed Independent Bookshop Limited Edition. No. 954 of 2000.

Seller Inventory # 23507

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sea of Tranquility.
• Publisher: Picador, London
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529083494
• ISBN 13: 9781529083491
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: NEW
• Dust Jacket Condition: NEW DJ
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

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.