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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 five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
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.
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
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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 five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
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.
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
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Softcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Risse; Gebogener Buchrücken. The award-winning author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel presents a novel that spans from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a moon colony three centuries later, exploring themes of art, time, love, and plague. Eighteen-year-old Edwin St. Andrew, exiled from society after a dinner party outburst, embarks on a transatlantic journey. Captivated by the Canadian wilderness, he is stunned by the sound of a violin echoing in an airship terminal. Fast forward two centuries, and renowned writer Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour across Earth, though her true home is a moon colony characterized by its artificial beauty. Within her best-selling pandemic novel lies a peculiar passage about a man playing the violin in a terminal surrounded by trees. Meanwhile, detective Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, operating in the shadowy Night City, is tasked with investigating an anomaly in North America. His inquiry reveals disrupted lives: an earl's exiled son descending into madness, a writer stranded during a pandemic, and a childhood friend who, like Gaspery, sees a chance to alter the universe's timeline. This novel intricately weaves time travel and metaphysics, capturing the essence of our contemporary reality with both tenderness and intellectual depth. Seller Inventory # 7832ffdb-2303-4df4-9db2-00e434d81c87
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