Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel - Fiction - Paperback

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Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781529083514. Publisher: Picador. Overview:. Sea of Tranquility is Emily St. John Mandel's dazzling, genre-blending novel that moves from the forests of Vancouver Island in 1912 to a lunar colony three centuries later. Weaving together an exiled Englishman, a stranded composer, a detective, and a novelist on a book tour of Earth, Mandel crafts a spiralling meditation on art, time, love, and plague. Sunday Times bestselling and critically adored, it's ideal for readers of literary science fiction, book clubs, and anyone who loved Station Eleven.. About the Book:. In 1912, eighteen-year-old Edwin St. Andrew crosses the Atlantic, exiled from polite English society, and wanders into the Canadian wilderness where he experiences an inexplicable, disorienting flash: a sudden darkness, the sound of a violin, the interior of a strange building. Two hundred years later, novelist Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour of Earth, far from her home on a moon colony, when she meets a man who describes a similarly strange experience. In the near future, a detective is hired by the mysterious Time Institute to investigate an anomaly in the historical record, a crack in the fabric connecting these unrelated moments. Sea of Tranquility asks profound questions about reality, simulation, and what it means to be alive in a fractured timeline. Mandel's prose is spare, elegant, and quietly devastating, threading tenderness and wit through a story shadowed by memories of a global pandemic. Fans of Station Eleven will recognise recurring characters and Mandel's fascination with interconnected lives and the fragile boundaries of civilisation. It is a compact, propulsive novel rewarding close reading, offering a satisfying puzzle-box structure alongside genuine emotional weight. It is at once an intimate character study and a sweeping speculative epic, cementing Mandel's reputation as one of the most inventive literary voices working today.. Key Benef