Station Eleven [electronic resource]

Emily St John Mandel

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SOON TO BE A HBO MINISERIES 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? LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2015 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FINALIST 2015 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST PRAISE FOR STATION ELEVEN 'BEST NOVEL. The big one . . . One of the 2014 books that I did read stands above all the others: Station E...