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The award-winning, bestselling 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 of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

About the Author

Emily St. John Mandel was born in Canada and studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Her novels include Last Night in Montreal, The Singer's Gun, The Lola Quartet, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

Reviews

Brilliant . . . a fiercely original creation
*Observer*

It is heaven to be immersed in the waters of Mandel's imagination . . . so wise, so graceful, so rich . . . I loved Sea of Tranquility
*Naomi Alderman, Women's Prize-winning author of The Power*

A spiralling, transportive triumph of storytelling - sci-fi with soul
*Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies*

A cunning time-travel narrative . . . unputdownable . . . distinctive, remarkable work from one of the genre’s major voices
*Guardian, Best Books of the Year*

One of her finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into speculative fiction yet
*New York Times*

A time travel epic: a soaring story of connections through the ages . . . profound and life-affirming
*Vogue*

Even more boldly imagined than Station Eleven. Exciting to read, relevant, and satisfying.
*Kirkus*

Ingenious, hugely ambitious . . . graceful and beguiling
*Guardian*

Bold and exciting . . . Sea of Tranquility is Mandel’s most ambitious novel yet. Inventing and mind-bending
*The Economist*

Destabilizing, extraordinary, and blood-boiling . . . a speculative epic
*New Yorker*

Extraordinary . . . An expertly crafted time-travel tale . . . supremely satisfying and moving . . . You won’t be able to shut up about this book
*Irish Times*

Readers of Mandel’s Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel will not be disappointed, a generous and elegant novel about art and family and time travel
*LitHub*

The feeling of something lovely glimpsed and lost is everywhere in these pages
*New York Times*

Mind-blowing
*Washington Post*

Mandel remains an instant-buy writer
*Glamour*

Wonderfully inventive . . . genuinely impressive, subtle and nuanced . . . a story with love and longing for connection at its heart, moving and thought-provoking in equal measure
*Big Issue*

An ambitious time-travelling panorama of pandemics and parallel worlds
*Guardian*

A story like a tone poem, uncannily lovely and profound
*EW*

A trippy, wistful story
*Wired*

An inventive, haunting, and tender time-travel story that underscores the importance and resilience of art
*Vulture*

Poignant, ingeniously constructed and deeply absorbing
*NPR*

Sensational . . . masterfully plotted and deeply moving
*Esquire*

Emily St. John Mandel, who, like an ingenious origami artist, seems determined with each new work to add yet another fold to our perception of what is real and one further twist to what we think of as time . . . Transcendent
*Wall Street Journal*

Mandel illustrates how hope and humanity are flames that can never be fully extinguished
*Elle*

World builder is a phrase that's rightly used to describe Emily Mandel's immersive powers as a novelist. I didn't just read Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel or Sea of Tranquility. I lived in those novels
*NPR*