Sea of Tranquility: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Station Eleven

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SELECTED AS ONE OF THE OPRAH DAILY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2022 'So wise, so graceful, so rich. I loved Sea of Tranquility' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power 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.

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Brilliant . . . a fiercely original creation * Observer *
It is heaven to be immersed in the waters of Mandel's imagination . . . so wise, so graceful, so rich . . . I loved Sea of Tranquility -- Naomi Alderman, Women's Prize-winning author of The Power
A spiralling, transportive triumph of storytelling - sci-fi with soul -- Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies
A cunning time-travel narrative . . . unputdownable . . . distinctive, remarkable work from one of the genres major voices * Guardian, Best Books of the Year *
One of her finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into speculative fiction yet * New York Times *
A time travel epic: a soaring story of connections through the ages . . . profound and life-affirming * Vogue *
Even more boldly imagined than Station Eleven. Exciting to read, relevant, and satisfying. * Kirkus *
Ingenious, hugely ambitious . . . graceful and beguiling * Guardian *
Bold and exciting . . . Sea of Tranquility is Mandels most ambitious novel yet. Inventing and mind-bending * The Economist *
Destabilizing, extraordinary, and blood-boiling . . . a speculative epic * New Yorker *
Extraordinary . . . An expertly crafted time-travel tale . . . supremely satisfying and moving . . . You wont be able to shut up about this book * Irish Times *
Readers of Mandels Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel will not be disappointed, a generous and elegant novel about art and family and time travel * LitHub *
The feeling of something lovely glimpsed and lost is everywhere in these pages * New York Times *
Mind-blowing * Washington Post *
Mandel remains an instant-buy writer * Glamour *
Wonderfully inventive . . . genuinely impressive, subtle and nuanced . . . a story with love and longing for connection at its heart, moving and thought-provoking in equal measure * Big Issue *
An ambitious time-travelling panorama of pandemics and parallel worlds * Guardian *
A story like a tone poem, uncannily lovely and profound * EW *
A trippy, wistful story * Wired *
An inventive, haunting, and tender time-travel story that underscores the importance and resilience of art * Vulture *
Poignant, ingeniously constructed and deeply absorbing * NPR *
Sensational . . . masterfully plotted and deeply moving * Esquire *
Emily St. John Mandel, who, like an ingenious origami artist, seems determined with each new work to add yet another fold to our perception of what is real and one further twist to what we think of as time . . . Transcendent * Wall Street Journal *
Mandel illustrates how hope and humanity are flames that can never be fully extinguished * Elle *
World builder is a phrase that's rightly used to describe Emily Mandel's immersive powers as a novelist. I didn't just read Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel or Sea of Tranquility. I lived in those novels -- Maureen Corrigan * NPR *

Author Bio

Emily St. John Mandel was born in Canada and studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Her novels include Last Night in Montreal, The Singer's Gun, The Lola Quartet, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.