Station Eleven

Station Eleven

The New York Times Bestseller<br /> Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award<br /> Longlisted for the Baileys Women&#39;s Prize for Fiction<br /> National Book Awards Finalist<br /> PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist<br /> <br /> One of the 2014 books that I did read stands above all the others, however: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel . . . It&#39;s a deeply melancholy novel, but beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac, a book that I will long remember, and return to. (George R. R. Martin)<br /> <br /> What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> If civilization was lost, what would you preserve? And how far would you go to protect it?