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Sea of Tranquility A novel

by Emily St. John Mandel

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Language
English
Published
2023
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages
272
ISBN
9780593466735
In 1912, a young man is exiled to the Canadian wilderness and experiences a moment of unsettling strangeness, hearing the sound of a violin in a place that resembles a vast, dark cathedral. Centuries later, a famous author living in a moon colony includes a similar, peculiar scene in her bestselling novel about a pandemic. In between, a woman in the present day watches a video fragment of a mysterious anomaly in a forest. These disparate lives are all connected by a single, inexplicable event that ripples through time, hinting at a truth that lies just beyond perception.

This work of speculative fiction weaves together a narrative of art, time, love, and plague, following a detective from the future who is tasked with investigating this temporal disturbance. The novel explores the very nature of reality, the enduring power of human connection, and how moments of crisis can define us. It is a story that considers if humanity is living in a simulation, the consequences of breaking the laws of time, and the search for meaning in a world that is constantly ending.

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Originally published in 2022 English Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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