Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

2015 Nominee

British Fantasy Award Best Horror Novel

2015 Winner

The Arthur C. Clarke Award

01 January 2015
9781447268970
352 pages

Synopsis

'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?

Mandel’s beautiful depiction of the survival of human culture and art in a post-apocalyptic world, Perfect for fans of The Handmaid’s Tale.
The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t the only one out there to examine life in a dystopia or collapsing society, or examine the challenges women face when confronting an authoritative power.
A dystopian novel that every woman should read after The Handmaid’s Tale.