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Sea of Tranquility

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Sea of Tranquility

Written by: Emily St. John Mandel
Narrated by: John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey, Kirsten Potter
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” —The New York Times

“Mandel’s sensational sixth novel offers immense pleasures of puzzle box plotting and high-flying imagination. . . . Masterfully plotted and deeply moving, this visionary novel folds back on itself like a hall of mirrors to explore just what connects us to one another, and how many extraordinary contingencies bring us to each ordinary day of our lives.” —Esquire

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel, a “bold and exciting” (The Economist) and “transcendent” (Wall Street Journal) novel filled with “puncturing emotional truths” (Glamour)

In this captivating tale of imagination and ambition, a seemingly disparate array of people come into contact with a time traveller who must resist the pull to change the past and the future. The cast includes a British exile on the west coast of Canada in the early 1900s; the author of a bestselling novel about a fictional pandemic who embarks on a galaxy-spanning book tour during the outbreak of an actual pandemic; a resident of a moon colony almost 300 years in the future; and a lonely girl who films an old-growth forest and experiences a disruption in the recording. Blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, Emily St. John Mandel’s dazzling story follows these engrossing characters across space and time as their lives ultimately intersect.

Sea of Tranquility is a breathtaking and wondrous examination of the ties that bind us together, by a master storyteller.

©2022 Emily St. John Mandel (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction Time Travel
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Wonderful…

…just that fills you with wonder about time and experiences and what we may not know. The wry observations are fun too. Also, the readers/performances are very good.

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Slow to start, but weaves an interesting time tale

I picked up the book in a book shop and loved the first section, (but now I want a novel about the remittance man) but it does mean when I finally bought the book it was not what I expected at all. It is a bit like the Film "Matrix", and a bit like "How High we go in the Dark", and two years away from COVID the pandemic mentions were interesting, not irritating (as it would have been reading it 18 months ago)

I did enjoy this enormously. Read both the book and listened to the audio, and the ending explained the curious choice of narrators, so clever

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Tranquil read

Enjoyed it. Narration is easy to listen to. Good introduction to Emily St. John Mandel.

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Amazing Story and Performances

Such a compact and well written book yet a sweeping story that cuts across multiple genres. So worthwhile!

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some nice prose, lacks tension

I wonder if this would have been better as a long form poem—the way La Jetée is so much better than 12 Monkeys. It is a kind of thought experiment and a relatively light one, adding only a few stitches to the silent film from which it is rather blatantly derived. Maybe I'm too much of hard scfi guy, but I can also appreciate lovely text for its own sake. this seems to need more work on story dynamics or on the texture of the language, or both. I don't know much about the author, but I guess from this that she is relatively young and full of promise. I might read her next book, given strong reviews.

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Satisfying and Beautifully Performed

This is time travel without the technical baggage. The multiple narrators made it exciting to listen to. I think this is one of my favorite audiobooks ever. I now want to explore all of this author's books.

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Emily St. Jean Mandel's best

My only complaint about this book is that it was far too short! I could have easily explored this "multiverse" for twice as long. I've read Glass Hotel and Station Eleven and would definitely rank this as my favourite of Emily St. Jean Mandel's. I found the characters all interesting in their own right and enjoyed how their timelines were woven together.

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Wonderful

I really enjoyed both the story and the performances. The author does a great job of transporting us to past and future, and I loved the wibbly wobbly times wimey bits.

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Read glass hotel first

This book spoils a lot of the plot to glass hotel so read that first.

Excellent voice performances

Liked the book overall with some small annoyance the author put herself in the book.

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magnificent!

Where does she get all these brilliant ideas?;
Do read, listen to this book. You won't regret it.

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