PublishedPicador, May 2022 |
ISBN9781529083415 |
FormatSoftcover, 352 pages |
Dimensions19.7cm × 13cm × 2.4cm |
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS
Now an HBO Max original TV series
The New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award
Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
National Book Awards Finalist
PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
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?
Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.
A true bookworm, Steph has been working in bookshops for over 5 years! A keen student of history and current affairs, she is always up to date with new non-fiction releases. Ultimately though her heart lies with fiction. From Modern Literature to the occasional Sci-fi and Fantasy, Steph always has a long list of recommendations to offer.
St John Mandel constructs dystopian worlds that are only a stones throw away from the real world. The ordinariness of her characters on the backdrop of extraordinary circumstances make her novels stand out, and her plot twists are unbeaten. For fans of Black Mirror, her books are the perfect overlap of humanity and scifi, and Station Eleven is no exception.
