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Station Eleven
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This Anniversary Edition of Station Eleven, a finalist for the National Book Award and named a Best Book of the Twenty-First Century by the New York Times, celebrates ten years of this now iconic novel with a new color illustration and a guide to "The Mandelverse"
A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
It is fifteen years after a flu pandemic wiped out most of the world's population. Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony, a small troupe moving over the gutted landscape, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. But when they arrive in the outpost of St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave. Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the disaster brought everyone here, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty, telling a story about the relationships that sustain us.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9780385353304
EAN:
9780385353304
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
352
Authors:
Emily St John Mandel
Publisher:
Knopf Publishing Group
Published Date: 2014-09-09
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I started reading this book 4 times and always lost interest and moved on to something else. The 5th time I was on a plane and had nothing else to read so stuck with it and finally got a,part that interested me and got me hooked.I love apocalyptic books in general and this one had some good elements. It made me think more than most about the loss that occurs.
Simply one of the best books I've ever read. So many different stories within the story. A study of humanity, it's beauty and its banality.
I found this wonderful novel to be engaging from page one all the way to the end. Great characters, an interesting take on the apocalypse, and a complex yet approachable structure. I loved the ways the different characters overlapped in ways both big and small. I think the mark of a great book is when you hate to leave the characters and I certainly felt that with this novel. I would love to read more stories about Javeen, Kristen, and Clark. Brava!
It’s well written. The premise is cliche, but the characters make the story.I wish Christianity didn’t need to play a negative role. It’s been two thousand years, and this modern age is restless. So many distractions to lead from the truth. Can one read this and still hang on? I hope so.
The book explores the breakdown of civilization caused by a deadly and rapidly spreading virus, and how the survivors (<1% of the pre-collapse population) manage to survive. I am not an expert on literary criticism, but I thought the author did a good job of making her characters seem authentic. I found the book engaging and suspenseful, but also thought-provoking. After reading the first chapters, I tried to research the plausibility of such a lethal virus. As best I can tell such a virus would be unprecedented but not implausible. It causes me to worry more about the current national leadership of our public health systems. In the imagined scenario they would certainly make the problem much worse. There are also incidents in the story that give insights into religion and how it sometimes makes good people evil.
