Station Eleven
A Novel (national Book Award Finalist)
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · June 2, 2015
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” A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century 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.
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- Genres
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian, Literary Fiction
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, June 2, 2015
- Readers
- 624,676 ratings on Goodreads
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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” A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century 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.
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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.
Sharp Aftershocks
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- Mandel’s cool, lucid prose
- A literary edge on collapse and time
Expect
- Literate, controlled momentum
- Speculative elements without the usual noise
Where it sits
| Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic | 99% |
|---|---|
| Dystopian | 64% |
| Literary Fiction | 59% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Literary Fiction
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
- Dystopian
- Authors
- Emily St. John Mandel
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- June 2, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Literary Fiction