Sea of Tranquility
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4.2 • 20 Ratings
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- $20.99
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- $20.99
Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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“One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” —The New York Times
“Mandel’s sensational sixth novel offers immense pleasures of puzzle box plotting and high-flying imagination. . . . Masterfully plotted and deeply moving, this visionary novel folds back on itself like a hall of mirrors to explore just what connects us to one another, and how many extraordinary contingencies bring us to each ordinary day of our lives.” —Esquire
From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel, a “bold and exciting” (The Economist) and “transcendent” (Wall Street Journal) novel filled with “puncturing emotional truths” (Glamour)
In this captivating tale of imagination and ambition, a seemingly disparate array of people come into contact with a time traveller who must resist the pull to change the past and the future. The cast includes a British exile on the west coast of Canada in the early 1900s; the author of a bestselling novel about a fictional pandemic who embarks on a galaxy-spanning book tour during the outbreak of an actual pandemic; a resident of a moon colony almost 300 years in the future; and a lonely girl who films an old-growth forest and experiences a disruption in the recording. Blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, Emily St. John Mandel’s dazzling story follows these engrossing characters across space and time as their lives ultimately intersect.
Sea of Tranquility is a breathtaking and wondrous examination of the ties that bind us together, by a master storyteller.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A single event ripples through generations in Emily St. John Mandel’s exciting, mind-bending novel. Time-travelling investigator Gaspery-Jacques Roberts has been tasked with looking into the shared experience of three unrelated people from three different centuries. Beginning in 1912, an English aristocrat, a young girl, and a famous author all witnessed a strange phenomenon that left each of them questioning their sight and sanity. The Station Eleven author masterfully weaves together a fast-paced story that hums with excitement, and John Lee’s stately, British-accented narration is a joy to listen to. Sea of Tranquility is a thought-provoking story about the inexplicable ways in which we’re all connected.
Customer Reviews
Riveting read
In this latest novel by British Columbia born, New York City based author Emily St. John Mandel, the author continues her sterling track record of producing magical novels that are at once unsettling and intoxicating, weaving together characters from different eras and diverse locales while simultaneously playing with time and all of its inconsistencies, echoes, and corruptions. Jumping between the long-ago past, the near present, and the distant future, Mandel's oddly vast yet intimate tale weaves in characters first seen in The Glass Hotel where they played minor roles. Here they help to illustrate how there are no such things as chance encounters, that we are all connected in ways that cannot always be fathomed, and that even the most seemingly insignificant detail could blow open a window on an entire universe.