Station Eleven A novel
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Sprache:Englisch
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Verkaufsrang
32725
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
09.09.2014
Verlag
Random House N.Y.Seitenzahl
352
Maße (L/B/H)
21,8/14,6/3,5 cm
Gewicht
560 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-385-35330-4
2014 National Book Award Finalist
A New York Times Bestseller
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves inside an apartment, watching out the window as cars clog the highways, gunshots ring out, and life disintegrates around them.
Fifteen years later, Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony. Together, this small troupe moves between the settlements of an altered world, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. Written on their caravan, and tattooed on Kirsten's arm is a line from Star Trek: "Because survival is insufficient." But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave.
Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty. As Arthur falls in and out of love, as Jeevan watches the newscasters say their final good-byes, and as Kirsten finds herself caught in the crosshairs of the prophet, we see the strange twists of fate that connect them all. A novel of art, memory, and ambition, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.
A New York Times Bestseller
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves inside an apartment, watching out the window as cars clog the highways, gunshots ring out, and life disintegrates around them.
Fifteen years later, Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony. Together, this small troupe moves between the settlements of an altered world, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. Written on their caravan, and tattooed on Kirsten's arm is a line from Star Trek: "Because survival is insufficient." But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave.
Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty. As Arthur falls in and out of love, as Jeevan watches the newscasters say their final good-byes, and as Kirsten finds herself caught in the crosshairs of the prophet, we see the strange twists of fate that connect them all. A novel of art, memory, and ambition, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.
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A wonderful book that set within...
Bewertung am 23.10.2022
Bewertungsnummer: 1811160
Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)
A wonderful book that set within an post apocalyptic world that was hit by a pandemic. It encapsulates in beautiful writing the lives of the people before and after the world as we know it ends. The prose makes the characters shine and it makes the story as lovely as it is sad.
"Hell is the absence of the people we long for."
Bewertung am 07.07.2023
Bewertungsnummer: 1975952
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)
Before the world stood still, three people meet under most unpleasant and confusing circumstances. They don't know it yet, and won't remember for a long time, but they are destined to meet again- despite all the death and destruction they will come to face.
The book is beautifully written with delicate prose that makes it hard to tear your eyes away from the pages. It connects the intricate storylines of every person with ease and - despite having a simple plot - the true highlight lies in the examination of the world before and after the apocalypse and the conclusions the characters inside the book make about it.
Mandel manages to pack so much into these 300 pages: How we live in a world that doesn't really want us in it anymore. How people and humanity can only be remembered by the stories told about them. And how every human tells those stories differently.
"Station Eleven" shows how the absence of the world as we once knew it makes space for infinite possibility. And infinite beauty.
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