Station Eleven

Synopsis

One of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

An atmospheric novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse. Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven is now an HBO Max original TV series.

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?

Author

EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL is the author of seven novels, including Exit Party, Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was included in the New York Times Best 100 Books of the 21st Century list. Her work has been translated into thirty-seven languages and adapted for television. She lives in New York City and Los Angeles.