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Station Eleven

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Zusatztext Strong storytelling and believable characters combine in this very human tale Informationen zum Autor Emily St. John Mandel was born in Canada and studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Her novels are Last Night in Montreal , The Singer’s Gun , The Lola Quartet , Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel . She lives in New York City. Klappentext Longlisted for the Bailey's Prize 2015The New York Times Bestseller2014 National Book Awards Finalist2015 PEN/Faulkner Award FinalistWhat 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? 'BEST NOVEL. The big one . . . One of the 2014 books that I did read stands above all the others:Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel . . . beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac, a book that I will long remember, and return to.' George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones 'Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven is that rare find that feels familiar and extraordinary at the same time. This is truly something special' Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Station Eleven is a post-apocalyptic story of love, loss and survival. Zusammenfassung Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Station Eleven is a post-apocalyptic story of love, loss and survival.

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Authors Emily St John Mandel, Emily St. John Mandel, Emily St John Mandel, Emily St. John Mandel
Publisher Picador Uk
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 18
Product format Paperback
Released 01.01.2015
 
EAN 9781447268970
ISBN 978-1-4472-6897-0
No. of pages 333
Dimensions 130 mm x 197 mm x 21 mm
Series Picador
151 POCHE
151 POCHE
Aziza's Secret Fairy Door
Picador Collection
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

USA, Women, Canada, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Literary, United States of America, USA, Science fiction: near-future, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Dystopian

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