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Sea of Tranquility / Emily St. John Mandel.

Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979- (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780593321447
ISBN: 0593321448
ISBN: 9780593466735
ISBN: 059346673X
Physical Description: 255 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

General Note:

"This is a Borzoi book."

Summary, etc.:

"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 timeline of the universe"--Provided by publisher.