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Station Eleven
- Narrated by: Jack Hawkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Station Eleven
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Publisher's Summary
Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2015
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 it threatens the hopeful world every survivor has tried to rebuild.
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, a bystander warned about the flu just in time; Arthur's first wife, Miranda; Arthur's oldest friend, Clark; Kirsten, an actress with the Travelling Symphony; and the mysterious and self-proclaimed 'prophet'.
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.Editorial reviews
The Travelling Symphony, a group of musicians and actors, wander what remains of Planet Earth after a global pandemic has decimated the population, performing musical acts and Shakespearean skits for pockets of survivors who have managed to rebuild. Life has slowly settled into some semblance of normalcy — but with a new danger rising, any illusion of safety is soon shattered.
Told through the voice of multiple characters (each performed with distinction by narrator Jack Hawkins), Station Eleven is a twisting novel that jumps back and forth from the early days of the outbreak to the crumbled aftermath. It’s a stark, brilliantly crafted post-apocalyptic tale that is both adored by fans and celebrated by critics, evidenced by its 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award win.
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- Helen
- 21-11-2020
Superb
I loved this book and having read it in 2020 It had a special poignancy. The flicking between time periods is done well and the linking of characters is believable. Well narrated.
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- Cliffs
- 12-02-2022
captivating
the most interesting and original approach to the genre in recent memory. with realistic characters intertwined in a really engaging way
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- Thomas
- 24-06-2019
different
an interesting drama set before and after apocalypse. narrator was great. not your typical post apoc story
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- Anton
- 22-04-2019
great dude
what a great dude!!!!!!! very very very very very very very very very very super cool
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- Anonymous User
- 08-05-2019
Couldn’t put the book down!
Such a captivating book with enticing characters and story, can’t wait for the next book!
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- Anonymous User
- 11-01-2023
Beautiful book
So very sad but very beautiful. I’d certainly recommend it to anybody who enjoys reading character fiction.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-05-2024
For a post apocalyptic tale this was really original
The only thing I didn’t like was that there was more
I wish I could keep following there tale
This was just the most realistic post apocalyptic story I’ve ever listened to
Loved it
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-08-2024
A wonderful story, wonderfully told.
I'm a little surprised at how much I liked this book and how sad I feel that I've got to the end. It is that sort of book. Poignant, engrossing and cleverly crafted with a well drawn cast of characters in an impossible time.
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- Cocohoney
- 27-08-2024
Great concept, some gaps
Narration was ok, story is great, but I almost feel like chunks of it are missing. It could have been much longer with much more detail and perhaps this would have helped in connecting with the characters more. Each person’s storyline felt truncated somehow, as if it’s an abridged version.
I liked it nevertheless and it’s worth the listen.
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- Kimberley
- 14-09-2018
Brilliant
So well written and such great character , and not about the end of the world but so much more , full of life’s overlapping , wish it hadn’t ended .
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