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Emily St. John Mandel, Emily St. John Mandel
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Station Eleven
Nominiert: Baileys Women´s Prize for Fiction 2015, Nominiert: British Fantasy Award Best Horror Novel 2015, Ausgezeichnet: The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2015
2015. 384 S. 197 mm
Verlag/Jahr: MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL; PICADOR 2015
ISBN: 1-447-26897-0 (1447268970)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-447-26897-0 (9781447268970)
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Longlisted for the Baileys Women´s Prize for Fiction, Station Eleven is a post-apocalyptic story of love, loss and survival.
´Best novel. The big one . . . stands above all the others . . . beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac, a book that I will long remember, and return to.´ George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones.
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
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is a bold vision of a dystopian future, frighteningly real, perfect for fans of Margaret Atwood´s The Handmaid´s Tale.
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?
Mandel´s beautiful depiction of the survival of human culture and art in a post-apocalyptic world, Perfect for fans of The Handmaid´s Tale. Cosmopolitan
Mandel, Emily St. John
Emily St. John Mandel was born in Canada and studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. She is the author of the novels Last Night in Montreal, The Singer´s Gun, The Lola Quartet and Station Eleven and is a staff writer for The Millions. She is married and lives in New York.