Station Eleven

Author(s): Emily St John Mandel, Emily St. John Mandel

Fiction - General

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?


Product Information

'Glorious, unexpected, superbly written; just try putting it down' The Times

Longlisted for the Bailey's Prize 2015 The New York Times Bestseller 2014 National Book Awards Finalist 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist

'Glorious, unexpected, superbly written; just try putting it down.' --The Times '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.' -- George R. R. Martin 'Disturbing, inventive and exciting, Station Eleven left me wistful for a world where I still live.' -- Jessie Burton, author of THE MINIATURIST '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.'-- Erin Morgenstern, author of THE NIGHT CIRCUS '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.' --Guardian '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.' -- Ann Patchett, author of BEL CANTO and STATE OF WONDER

Emily St. John Mandel was born in Canada and studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. She is the author of the novels Last Night in Montreal, The Singer's Gun, The Lola Quartet and Station Eleven and is a staff writer for The Millions. She is married and lives in New York.

General Fields

  • : 9781447268970
  • : PAN MACMILLAN UK
  • : Picador
  • : 0.25
  • : March 2015
  • : 198mm X 130mm X 22mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : FA
  • : 384
  • : very good
  • : very good
  • : 813.6
  • : en
  • : Paperback
  • : Emily St John Mandel, Emily St. John Mandel