About the Book: Station Eleven
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS
The New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award
Longlisted for the Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction
National Book Awards Finalist
PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
What 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