{"product_id":"sea-of-tranquility-emily-st-john-mandel-9780593466735","title":"Sea of Tranquility","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - The award-winning, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e returns with a novel of art, time travel, 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the Best Books of the Year: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, GoodReads \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of [Mandel's] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdwin 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, \u003ci\u003eSea of Tranquility\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily St John Mandel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 059346673X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593466735\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Emily St John Mandel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44133764137215,"sku":"9780593466735","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c29e9a1c-6b3a-4cd0-8f9a-1c839f43b201.jpg?v=1687488095","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sea-of-tranquility-emily-st-john-mandel-9780593466735","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}