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Sea of Tranquility

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“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.

Adventure Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Women's Voices Time Travel

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…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.

Wonderful…

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Great weaving of storylines relevant to our current moment across space and time, with a great conclusion. Better to read The Glass Hotel first as this story follows it. Could have been longer but that was the only downside. Overall great.

Great

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At first I wasn't sure I'd like it but as I listened more, I really enjoyed the story and couldn't wait to get to the end. Loved the story overall.

Keep listening and you will get hooked

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Truly loved this book. It left me wanting more. I look forward to diving into Mandel's other work.

unexpected joy

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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

Slow to start, but weaves an interesting time tale

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