作者：EmilySt.JohnMandel
出版社：KnopfPublishingGroup
副标题：ANovel
出版年：2022-4-5
页数：272
定价：USD22.50
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780593321447
内容简介
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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 three 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 bestselling 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 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.
作者简介
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Emily St. John Mandel was born and raised on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. She studied contemporary dance at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre and lived briefly in Montreal before relocating to New York.
She is the author of five novels, including The Glass Hotel (spring 2020) and Station Eleven (2014.) Station Eleven was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, won the Morning News Tournament of Books, and has been translated into 34 languages. She lives in NYC with her husband and daughter.
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被书中的一个场景打动：在2400年，人可以居住在其他星球了，看着头顶模拟出来的蓝天白云，“我”对自己的生活是不是也是模拟的（被设计的）产生了怀疑。经历了穿越回以前时空，让“我”觉得即使是模拟出来的生活，也是自己的生活。（值得过的生活，有价值的生活，因为那是“我”的生活）
还行吧，现在应该在各大美国书店里都能轻易地看到它，毕竟在畅销中。穿越的剧情+疫情背景+元宇宙，流行元素都蹭到了，其实从剧情上看，电影《Looper》更精彩。逻辑上还是让时间闭环了，这样就行了，毕竟在现在的理解范围里，时间是不能改变的，改变必有大灾难。传统对时间迷之自愈的属性的理解也没有发生变化，无非是用这样的方式去解释——一切看似被干扰到的时间乱流其实也还是时间里的固有的存在。另外，这种小说是不是…
时间旅行和仿真假设，没有什么特别创新的地方，整体还行。
Olive从地球赶回月球的那段，真是resonant！像极了我2020年1月中旬从泰国回北京的过程，只不过她是躲回月球的家，而我是只能回到有情况的祖国怀抱——主动远离人群，路上下单了一堆东西，飞机上戴了两层口罩。唯一的区别是Olive在机场还买到了口罩，而我在苏梅岛上的时候还能买到口罩，到曼谷想再买的时候发现已经全部售罄，都被中国游客买光了……一想到23世纪还有pandemic，不禁感慨好日子果然…
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