Station Eleven

Description

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.

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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Emily St John Mandel
Published: 09/09/2014
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780385353304
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 1.25″ H x 8.52″ L x 6.10″ W

Award: 2014 National Book Awards Finalist – Fiction
Award: 2015 ALA Notable Books Winner – Fiction
Award: 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Nominee – Fiction
Award: 2015 Indies Choice Book Awards Honor Book – Fiction
Award: 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist – Fiction
Award: 2015 Michigan Notable Books Winner – Notable Book
Award: 2015 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalist – Novel
Award: 2015 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award Winner – Fiction

About the Author
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL’s five previous novels include The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives in New York City.