Station Eleven: the immersive, evocative bestselling modern classic
Sep 2014 · Pan Macmillan
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One of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
A dreamy atmospheric novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse. Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven is now an HBO Max original TV series.
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?
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
'Disturbing, inventive and exciting, Station Eleven left me wistful for a world where I still live' – Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist
Station Eleven is part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
A dreamy atmospheric novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse. Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven is now an HBO Max original TV series.
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?
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
'Disturbing, inventive and exciting, Station Eleven left me wistful for a world where I still live' – Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist
Station Eleven is part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
Ratings and reviews
4.3
192 reviews
Daniel Lawson
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September 12, 2017
This is an unusual post apocalypse story, nominally about the world 20 years after a deadly flu epidemic. It's surprisingly gentle given the death of so many people, and the world is interesting and perhaps more realistic than standard in the genre. For me however the beauty was marred by a focus on storylines from before the apocalypse, of rich and unrelatable people. The interesting world was under used, and related to the title concept of Station 11 in a way that felt flat and disappointing.
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Steve Nixon
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February 10, 2016
A many threads come together tale, well written. Enjoyable read, but some of the characters don't feel fully formed. If you like your action slow and your intertwining threads even slower, this is the book for you.
Thom Ashworth
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June 18, 2018
I demolished this book over a handful of days. Author has a great prose
style that is terse and readable, but still evocative. The disparate
threads all gather together in a way that's very satisfying.
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 and The Glass Hotel. She lives in New York City.
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