Station Eleven: Emily St. John Mandel - Softcover

Mandel, Emily St. John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447268970 ISBN 13: 9781447268970

Publisher: Picador, 2015

Synopsis

One of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

'Best novel. The big one . . . stands above all the others' – George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones

Now an HBO Max original TV series

The New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award
Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
National Book Awards Finalist
PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist

What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.

One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the same again.

Twenty years later Kirsten, an actress in the Travelling Symphony, performs Shakespeare in the settlements that have grown up since the collapse. But then her newly hopeful world is threatened.

If civilization was lost, what would you preserve? And how far would you go to protect it?

About this title

About the Author

Emily St. John Mandel was born in Canada and studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Her novels are Last Night in Montreal, The Singer’s Gun, The Lola Quartet, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility. She lives in New York City and Los Angeles.

From the Back Cover

What was lost in the collapse:
almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.

One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America.
The world will never be the same again.

Twenty years later Kirsten, an actress in the Travelling Symphony, performs Shakespeare in the settlements that have grown up since the collapse.
But then her newly hopeful world is threatened.

If civilization was lost, what would you preserve?
And how far would you go to protect it?

Edition details

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447268970
• ISBN 13: 9781447268970
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352