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

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 Benefits:

• From the acclaimed, Sunday Times bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel.
• A genre-blending literary sci-fi novel perfect for book clubs and adult fiction lovers.
• Compact, propulsive storytelling spanning four centuries in under 260 pages.
• Ideal gift for readers who enjoy time-travel narratives, pandemics-in-fiction, and speculative literary fiction.
• Brand new paperback edition, published by Picador.

About the Author:
Emily St. John Mandel is a Canadian novelist and essayist, born and raised in British Columbia. She is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Last Night in Montreal, The Singer's Gun, The Lola Quartet, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel, and Sea of Tranquility. Station Eleven became a New York Times bestseller, won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and was adapted into a celebrated HBO Max television series. Mandel's work is known for its elegant prose, interlocking timelines, and thoughtful exploration of human resilience amid crisis, earning her a devoted international readership.

Why You'll Love This Novel:
A hypnotic, time-spanning story of art, plague, and connection from a masterful contemporary novelist—perfect for readers who love thought-provoking, beautifully written speculative fiction.

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