Station Eleven

Author: St. John Mandel, Emily

USA

Published on 17 February 2022 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom as part of the Picador Collection series.

Paperback | 352 pages
197 x 130 x 26 | 242g

One of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyA dreamy atmospheric novel set in the eerie days of civilizations collapse. Emily St John Mandels 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 BestsellerWinner of the Arthur C. Clarke AwardLonglisted for the Baileys Womens Prize for FictionNational Book Awards FinalistPEN/Faulkner Award FinalistDisturbing, inventive and exciting, Station Eleven left me wistful for a world where I still live – Jessie Burton, author of The MiniaturistStation Eleven is part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.