Station Eleven Av Emily St. John Mandel

<p><b>A dreamily atmospheric novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse. Emily St John Mandel's <i>Station Eleven</i> is now an HBO Max original TV series.</b><br><br><i>What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.</i><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>If civilization was lost, what would you preserve? And how far would you go to protect it?<br><br><b>The <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller<br>Winner of