Sea of tranquility / Emily St. John Mandel.
The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, 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. "One of [Mandel's] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet"--The New York TimesEdwin 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. 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. 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. A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593551998
- ISBN: 0593551990
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (05 hr., 51 min., 02 sec.)) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : Random House Audio, 2022.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Arthur Morey, John Lee, Kirsten Potter and Dylan Moore. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive; viewed April 11, 2022). |
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