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. 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.
The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.Įdwin St. The story is simple and unrushed, laying out each scenario and then tying it all together as Gaspery-Jacques’ time-traveling contemplates the nature of destiny and fate. Mandel brilliantly writes literary science fiction, and Sea of Tranquility has a gorgeous lyrical presence to it. Decades later, Gaspery-Jacques Roberts is hired to investigate this anomaly in time, one that has the potential to disrupt the universe’s timeline.Īt under 300 pages with a large font and small size, Sea of Tranquility is an extremely short read. Two hundred years later, a famous writer includes a similar haunting scene in one of her books. In 1912, a young man hears a violin playing in the Canadian woods, an event that a videographer captures in the present day. John Mandel (author of Station Eleven) returns with her third novel, a story about parallel worlds and alternate possibilities. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.Įmily St. I received a complimentary copy of this book from Knopf Books.
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