Station Eleven

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Emily St. John Mandel

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”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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Author

Emily St. John Mandel

Pages

352

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published Date

2014-09-09

ISBN

0385353316 9780385353311

Ratings

Google: 4

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"The best way I can think to describe this book is a bouncing spider web. The chapters move back and forth in time while slowly spiraling towards the center to reveal how everything is connected. Not a light read, this is one to pay attention to and maybe even take notes on. If I could go back in time to before I read this book, I'd tell myself to note down each time a new character was introduced with the name, page number and some detail about them, because there were a few people I didn't realize were the same character from CHAPTERS ago. <- this is also not a critique to the book, just wanna clarify. Especially because I'm honestly impressed at the organization of everything, props to the writer and editor because creating this many jumps and keeping the book comprehensible is a feat. 7/10⚔️"

Mare

"Really good, interesting dystopian/end of world type novel. Not normally something I’d go for but I’d heard such good things about it. I listened to the audio version and it was great! "

Skye Edelson-Bennett

"In a dystopian future following a deadly plague, a small traveling troupe entertains with music and Shakespeare in the midst of the fight for survival. Characters’ lives before and after collapse civilization are intertwined, as Mandel does so well. Recommend!"

Jackie Davidson

"The different characters and timelines come together like strands of a hair being woven into a braid. This book is a simple post-apocalyptic story more or less, but the way it is written really evokes the emotions of missing a world that doesn't exist anymore, which is something we can all relate to in a way. "

Darya 🖤

"One of the rare times I enjoyed the TV series more than the book. Perhaps the book was just too fast paced in comparison. Some of the characters stories just felt incomplete here. "

Joe H

"Quite an imaginative story, a journey type, with a ragtag set of characters brought together into the future. The idea of musicians and actors traveling in the future captured my attention, and the world the author describes is made brighter by their mission to bring art and light into a world gone bleak."