Sea of tranquility / Emily St. John Mandel.
Edwin 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 time line 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: 9780593552070
- ISBN: 0593552075
- Physical Description: 5 audio discs (6 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : Random House Audio, [2022]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from web page. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey, and Kirsten Potter. |
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Subject: | Space and time > Fiction. Space colonies > Fiction. Women authors > Fiction. Epidemics > Fiction. Pandemics > Fiction. Moon > Fiction. |
Genre: | Time-travel fiction. Novels. Audiobooks. Epic fiction. Science fiction. |
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