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STATION ELEVEN
Longlisted for the National Book Award 2014.
Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner award
Longlisted for the bailey's women's fiction prize
ALA Notable Book of the Year
On a winter night in Toronto, an actor dies of a heart attack in the fourth act of King Lear. But Arthur Leander's death attracts little notice, because a rapidly-spreading flu pandemic has just reached North America, and early estimates put the mortality rate over 99%. Within days society has begun to unravel, within weeks the electrical grid is down and telecommunication systems have collapsed, and within months civilization as we know it has come to an end.
Twenty years later, the horse-drawn caravans of the Traveling Symphony move down the eastern shore of Lake Michigan under a summer sky. The Symphony has been on the road for fifteen years, performing Shakespeare and classical music in the scattered settlements of the new world. The sparsely-populated landscape is for the most part tranquil now, but when two of the Symphony's musicians disappear from a town ruled by a violent prophet, they're forced to flee beyond the borders of the known territory.
STATION ELEVEN - DAS LICHT DER LETZTEN TAGE
Deutsch von Wibke Kuhn
[PB Piper 09/15, TB Piper 02/17; TB Ullstein 02/2022]
Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner award
Longlisted for the bailey's women's fiction prize
ALA Notable Book of the Year
On a winter night in Toronto, an actor dies of a heart attack in the fourth act of King Lear. But Arthur Leander's death attracts little notice, because a rapidly-spreading flu pandemic has just reached North America, and early estimates put the mortality rate over 99%. Within days society has begun to unravel, within weeks the electrical grid is down and telecommunication systems have collapsed, and within months civilization as we know it has come to an end.
Twenty years later, the horse-drawn caravans of the Traveling Symphony move down the eastern shore of Lake Michigan under a summer sky. The Symphony has been on the road for fifteen years, performing Shakespeare and classical music in the scattered settlements of the new world. The sparsely-populated landscape is for the most part tranquil now, but when two of the Symphony's musicians disappear from a town ruled by a violent prophet, they're forced to flee beyond the borders of the known territory.
STATION ELEVEN - DAS LICHT DER LETZTEN TAGE
Deutsch von Wibke Kuhn
[PB Piper 09/15, TB Piper 02/17; TB Ullstein 02/2022]
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Published 2014-09-01 by Knopf |