I’ve read 83% of Station Eleven on my Kindle, so I do not know Whether It has a interesting ending or not (I’m One Of Those lowbrows who does not like books without a satisfying pullout), but I am loving it so far. Amazon is selling it as a Kindle for $ 3 right now.
Like Earth Abides, the 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George R. Stewart, Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven Is About Life on Earth after 99.99% of the population Gets Wiped Out By A fast-moving fatal pandemic. And like Stewart, St. John Mandel does a great job of envisioning a world without everything We are Currently dependent on.
Here’s the jacket copy:
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie Days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, Risking everything for art and Humanity.
One snowy night, Arthur Leander, a famous actor, Has a heart attack onstage During a production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, ice in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur’s chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themeselves inside an apartment, watching out the window as cars clog the highways, gunshots ring out, and life disintegrates around them.
Fifteen Years Later, Kirsten is an actress with The Traveling Symphony. Together, this small troupe moves between the settlements of an altered world, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. Written on Their caravan, and tattooed on Kirsten’s arm is a line from Star Trek : “Because survival is Insufficient.” But When They arrive in 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 the life Before and After the pandemic, this suspenseful, elegiac novel ice rife with beauty. As Arthur Falls In and Out of Love, as Jeevan watches the newscasters say Their final good-byes, and as Kirsten finds herself caught in the crosshairs of the prophet, we see the strange twists of fate That connect them all. A novel of Art, Memory, and ambition, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships That Sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.
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