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By (author) St. John Mandel Emily
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An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization”s collapse.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A dystopian novel that every woman should read after The Handmaid’s Tale.
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Glorious, unexpected, superbly written; just try putting it down.
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One of the 2014 books that I did read stands above all the others, however: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel . . . It”s a deeply melancholy novel, but beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac, a book that I will long remember, and return to.
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Disturbing, inventive and exciting, Station Eleven left me wistful for a world where I still live.
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Once in a very long while a book becomes a brand new old friend, a story you never knew you always wanted. Station Eleven is that rare find that feels familiar and extraordinary at the same time, expertly weaving together future and present and past, death and life and Shakespeare. This is truly something special.
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Visually stunning, dreamily atmospheric and impressively gripping . . . Station Eleven is not so much about apocalypse as about memory and loss, nostalgia and yearning; the effort of art to deepen our fleeting impressions of the world and bolster our solitude.
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Station Eleven is so compelling, so fearlessly imagined, that I wouldn”t have put it down for anything. I think this one is really going to go places.
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A beautiful and unsettling book
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Station Eleven is a firework of a novel. Elegantly constructed and packed with explosive beauty, it”s full of life and humanity and the aftershock of memory.
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There is no shortage of post-apocalyptic thrillers on the shelves these days, but Station Eleven is unusually haunting . . . There is an understated, piercing nostalg
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