The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The
Glass Hotel has written a new novel that combines art, time travel,
love, and plague. The story takes the listener from Vancouver
Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years
later, and explores humanity across centuries and space. The New
York Times calls it "One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of her
most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet."
The story follows the lives of Edwin St. Andrew, a man... Show more The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel has written a new novel that combines art, time travel, love, and plague. The story takes the listener from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, and explores humanity across centuries and space. The New York Times calls it "One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet." The story follows the lives of Edwin St. Andrew, a man exiled from society in 1912 and Olive Llewellyn, a famous writer in a future colony on the moon. A detective in the Night City is also brought into the story as he uncovers a series of lives upended by a pandemic and possible time travel. The author presents a human and tender story that is also intellectually playful. Less