The Sea of Tranquility

The long-awaited new release from the author of «The Glass Hotel» and «Station Eleven». A New York Times bestseller. Emily St. John Mandel returns with a novel about art, time travel, love, and plague that transports the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the Moon five hundred years later, telling the story of humanity through the ages and dimensions in the spirit of David Mitchell and his «Cloud Atlas». 1912. Eighteen-year-old Edwin St. Andrew gets into an argument with his father during dinner and then runs away to Canada. 1994. Twelve-year-old Vincent records a mysterious video in the woods near her home. 2020. After Vincent's death, her brother, now a composer, shows this video at his concert. 2203. Writer Olivia Llewellyn leaves her husband and daughter at home in the second lunar colony to go to Earth for a book tour - she has written a novel about a pandemic. To find out how these people are connected and why they hear the same sounds of a violin, detective Gasperi-Jacques Roberts must embark on a time travel journey. But what if their reality is a simulation?