This is a pre-order with an expected shipping date of November 2026.

Our signed, limited edition of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel is published in three states: Collector’s, Deluxe and, Lettered Editions. See the announcement here.

Time, memory, and human connection ripple across centuries in Sea of Tranquility, a novel by Canadian author Emily St. John Mandel. Conversation Tree Press is honoured to present a letterpress-printed, signed, limited edition of this haunting and intricately woven novel of pandemics, temporal anomalies, and the fragile threads that connect us.

First published in 2022, Sea of Tranquility traverses continents and centuries—from a remote forest in 1912 British Columbia to a lunar colony in the 2400s—drawing seemingly disparate lives into a single, resonant narrative. At its heart is a mysterious anomaly in time, one that echoes through generations and offers a meditation on the nature of existence and the illusion of permanence.

Sea of Tranquility has been praised as by The Guardian as “hugely ambitious in scope, yet also intimate and written with a graceful and beguiling fluency,” and as “one of Mandel’s finest novels” by The New York Times.

COLLECTOR’S EDITION:

• Limited to only 400 unnumbered copies.
• Letterpress printed on Fedrigoni Arena Rough 120gsm (80lb) paper by Nomad Letterpress, England.
• Hand bound by Ludlow Bookbinders in premium cloth, UV printed with artwork from Denis Sarazhin.
• Signed by Emily St. John Mandel and Denis Sarazhin.
• Title foil-stamped in metallic blue on the spine.
• 9 full colour plates tipped in by hand.
  
• Enclosed in a slipcase hand made of sturdy boards wrapped in a bookcloth.
• Slipcase lined with Suedel for maximum protection.
• Trim size of 170mm by 240mm (6.7in by 9.5in).
• 262 pages.