Station Eleven: A Novel (National Book Award Finalist)
Sep 2014 · Vintage
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This Anniversary Edition of Station Eleven, a finalist for the National Book Award and named a Best Book of the Twenty-First Century by the New York Times, celebrates ten years of this now iconic novel with a new color illustration and a guide to “The Mandelverse”
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.
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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572 reviews
Miles Senal
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November 29, 2022
In pandemic America, tales of illnesses flooding the world can grow tired. I read this way before COVID-19 was a thought in our minds and this novel is full of lovely characters you wish the best for. Not exactly full of surprises, just story driven narrative that makes you want more of each character.
Harold Goldner (HumanRacehorses)
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February 7, 2020
One of my very favorite books. Read it a second time to write a review for a local newsletter. Imagines a world that we dare not contemplate (especially now as coronavirus spreads), and the manner in which "civilization" attempts to survive and thrive.
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Michael Smith
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January 22, 2019
This was a fast engrossing read featuring multiple, subtly intertwined characters that are developed non-chronologically around the outbreak of an apocalyptic flu outbreak. I loved how the non-linear storytelling of this book would set up mysteries and then (usually) answer them during an unexpected moment, often at a completely different time and place. It forces the reader to pay attention to key details in order to best appreciate the interconnectedness of the events on the page. Good characters, good emotional impact.
About the author
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL's five previous novels include The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives in New York City.
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