BOOKS FROM CANADAStation Eleven
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Female author
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DAY ONE The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. WEEK TWO Civilization has crumbled. YEAR TWENTY A band of actors and musicians called the Travelling Symphony move through their territories performing concerts and Shakespeare to the settlements that have grown up there. Twenty years after the pandemic, life feels relatively safe. But now a new danger looms, and he threatens the hopeful world every survivor has tried to rebuild. STATION ELEVEN Moving backwards and forwards in time, from the glittering years just before the collapse to the strange and altered world that exists twenty years after, Station Eleven charts the unexpected twists of fate that connect six people: famous actor Arthur Leander; Jeevan - warned about the flu just in time; Arthur's first wife Miranda; Arthur's oldest friend Clark; Kirsten, a young actress with the Travelling Symphony; and the mysterious and self-proclaimed 'prophet'. Thrilling, unique and deeply moving, this is a beautiful novel that asks questions about art and fame and about the relationships that sustain us through anything - even the end of the world.
Reviews:
(2 years ago) |
21 Sep, 2023
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(10 months ago) |
18 Nov, 2024
Malgré la fin un peu abrupte, j'ai bien aimé ce roman post-apocalyptique qui s'intéresse davantage à la reconstruction du monde et à l'émergence d'une nouvelle culture qu'à la catastrophe en soi. J'ai apprécié la construction du roman avec ses allers et retours dans le temps et l'espace, le fait de partir d'un personnage central autour duquel s'articule tous les autres. Une proposition originale.
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(1 month ago) |
19 Aug, 2025
Loved it. An apocalyptic/dystopian novel that flits effortlessly between the past and present of several related characters. I want to call it lovely, but it seems strange for apocalyptic fiction. More literature than genre fiction, it is not plot or action driven, you don’t get drawn forward by “what happens next?”, and the SF is merely the backdrop used to offer a moving, elegiac examination of (amongst other things) what we remember and what we will be remembered for.
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