Sea of Tranquility

A Novel

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<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of <i>Station Eleven</i> and <i>The Glass Hotel</i> returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.<br><br>One of the Best Books of the Year: <i>The New York Times</i>, NPR, GoodReads <br><br>“One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core. <br><br>Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive’s best-selling pandemic 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. <br><br>When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl 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.<br><br>A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, <i>Sea of Tranquility</i> is a novel of time travel and metaphysics th

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780593466735

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

203 x 134 x 24 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House LLC US