Station Eleven
By Emily St. John Mandel
Harry Hartog's review
When I first read this I had expected the usual fast paced action/survival story, but instead I was given a story about hope, sacrifice, and love told through a thought provoking and engaging narrative. The more time that passes the more I realise the brilliance of this story and how it perfectly captures the beauty of the phrase: The human race will carryon. PS: If you have seen the tv show, this is so much better. - Paige, Harry Hartog Burnside
Description
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS
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?
Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.
- ISBN:
- 9781529083415
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 352
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Pan Macmillan
- Imprint:
- Picador
- Weight:
- 252 g