Sea of Tranquility : a novel (edizione 2022)

Mandel's pandemic novel. Mind-bending time travel and a lovely revisiting of Vincent and Paul from The Glass Hotel. ( )

Wow, this is the first book I've read from Emily St. John Mandel and I'm floored. It's hard to write a review on this book without giving anything away. I'll say this though, it's spectacular! The story is told from different years through time, 1915, 2020, 2203 and 2401. What do these years have in common? An event witnessed by various people. How are they related? Only a time traveler might be able to tell.
From early English settlers to settlers on the moon this book will definitely hold your interest. It was very hard to put down. I'll definitely be reading more of her work in the future and recommending this be added to everyone's to be read list next year!
Huge thanks to @penguinrandom and @edelweiss_squad for giving me the opportunity to read this amazing book! ( )

I liked this a lot. It's a smart, twisty, propulsive, and ultimately very humane novel about time travel, pandemics, and questions about the nature of reality, and I just gulped it down. It's a very sweet book at heart, but complex and very thoughtful at the same time. I see I'm going to have to read The Glass Hotel now. But this was a fun ride. ( )

Emily St. John Mandel is the type of writer I trust enough to jump in and follow wherever she leads. And where she leads in her newest novel, Sea of Tranquility — futuristic space colonies, pandemics, time travel, simulation theory — may be slightly “deranged” to quote Mandel herself, but I still loved it. It contains all the things you expect from a Mandel novel — beautifully succinct writing, disconnected connectedness, glimpses of characters from other novels — as she tells a story that extends from 1912 to 2401 that at its heart is about belonging, loss, family, and loneliness. In a world full of overly long, plotless books about self-obsessed twenty-somethings, this felt like a revelation. It may be short--in one of the very meta sections the author character ruminates on whether she has written a novel or a novella--but Sea of Tranquility is still one of the best books of the year for me, and a must-read for Mandel fans and all readers of literary fiction. ( )