Station Eleven

Name: Station Eleven
Author: Emily St. John Mandel
ISBN: 9780385353311

Emily St. John Mandel

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Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

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#145 of 8,085 books · #31 in Science Fiction

Won the Arthur C. Clarke Award (2015). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 4 other awards.

Station Eleven was a finalist for the National Book Award and named a Best Book of the Twenty-First Century by the New York Times. An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. It is fifteen years after a flu pandemic wiped out most of the world's population. Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony, a small troupe moving over the gutted landscape, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. But when they arrive in the outpost of St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave. Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the disaster brought everyone here, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty, telling a story about the relationships that sustain us.

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