Emily St. John Mandel

Dans un monde où la civilisation s'est effondrée suite à une pandémie foudroyante, une troupe d'acteurs et de musiciens nomadise entre de petites communautés de survivants pour leur jouer du

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Emily St. John Mandel, the award-winning author of Station Eleven, returns with a novel of time travel that precisely captures the reality of our current moment. Sea of Tranquility is a virtuoso performance and an enormously exciting offering from one of our most remarkable writers.In 1912, eighteen-year-old Edwin St. Andrew crosses the Atlantic, exiled from English polite society. In British Columbia, he enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and for a split second all is darkness, the notes of a violin echoing unnaturally through the air. The experience shocks him to his core.Two centuries later Olive Llewelyn, a famous writer, is traveling all over Earth, far away from her home in the second moon colony. Within the text of Olive's bestselling 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 time, he uncovers a series of lives upended: the exiled son of an aristocrat 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.Sea of Tranquility is a novel that investigates the idea of parallel worlds and possibilities, that plays with the very line along which time should run. Perceptive and poignant about art, and love, and what we must do to survive, it is incredibly compelling.

So wise, so graceful, so rich. I loved Sea of Tranquility' Naomi Alderman, author of The PowerThe award-winning author of Station Eleven returns with a story of time travel that precisely captures the reality of our current moment . . .In 1912, eighteen-year-old Edwin St. Andrew crosses the Atlantic, exiled from English polite society. In British Columbia, he enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and for a split second all is darkness, the notes of a violin echoing unnaturally through the air. The experience shocks him to his core.Two centuries later Olive Llewelyn, a famous writer, is traveling all over Earth, far away from her home in the second moon colony. Within the text of Olives bestselling 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 time, he uncovers a series of lives upended: the exiled son of an aristocrat 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.Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel is a novel that investigates the idea of parallel worlds and possibilities, that plays with the very line along which time should run. Perceptive and poignant about art, and love, and what we must do to survive, it is incredibly compelling.

Poden un grapat de personatges que viuen separats per cinc segles estar lligats per una anomalia en l'espaitemps? Emily St. John Mandel planteja amb la seva prosa senzilla i poetica un escenari que barreja la Columbia Britanica de principis del s. XX, el planeta Terra en plena pandemia i les llunyanes colonies espacials.

Una novela cautivadora sobre el dinero, la belleza y los fantasmas del pasado. Vincent es camarera en el hotel Caiette, un palacio de cristal y madera de cinco estrellas en la isla de Vancouver, donde su madre desaparecio cuando ella era una niña. El dueño del hotel, Jonathan Alkaitis, le da una propina a Vincent y eso marca el inicio de una vida juntos. Sin embargo, la aparicion de un inquietante mensaje en el ventanal del hotel pondra en peligro la felicidad de la nueva pareja. Trece años despues, la misteriosa desaparicion de una mujer en alta mar se entrelaza con el descubrimiento de una estafa piramidal y arrastra las vidas de Vincent y Alkaitis a un remolino que ninguno de los dos podra controlar y donde nada es lo que parece. Entre barcos, rascacielos de Manhattan y la naturaleza salvaje de la isla de Vancouver, los personajes se mueven como fantasmas en este deslumbrante retrato de la codicia, la reconciliacion con el pasado y la busqueda del sentido de la vida en un mundo caotico. La nueva novela de la ganadora del Arthur C. Clarke y finalista del National Book Award y el PEN/Faulkner Award.

Lives separated by time and space have collided, and an exiled Englishman, a writer trapped far from home, and a girl destined to die too young, have each glimpsed a world that is not their own. Travelling through the centuries, between colonies on the moon and an ever-changing Earth, together their lives will solve a mystery that will make you question everything you thought you knew to be true.

La mejor novela que leí en 2014. Un libro que recordaré durante mucho tiempo y que volveré a leer”. George R. R. Martin, autor de"Juego de tronos". Un inesperado virus mortal acaba con la humanidad

La mejor novela que leí en 2014. Un libro que recordaré durante mucho tiempo y que volveré a leer”. George R. R. Martin, autor deJuego de tronos.Un inesperado virus mortal acaba con la humanidad tal