Station Eleven

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478 pages

français language

Published Aug. 29, 2016 by Payot & Rivages.

ISBN:
978-2-7436-3755-2
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Un soir d’hiver à l’Elgin Theatre de Toronto, le célèbre acteur Arthur Leander s’écroule sur scène, en pleine représentation du Roi Lear. Plus rien ne sera jamais comme avant. Dans un monde où la civilisation s’est effondrée, une troupe itinérante d’acteurs et de musiciens parcourt la région du lac Michigan et tente de préserver l’espoir en jouant du Shakespeare et du Beethoven. Ceux qui ont connu l’ancien monde l’évoquent avec nostalgie, alors que la nouvelle génération peine à se le représenter. De l’humanité ne subsistent plus que l’art et le souvenir. Peut-être l’essentiel.

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reviewed Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Read almost in one go

If not for food-, sleep- and toilet breaks I almost read this in one go. Harrowing and layered story that gives a surprising entanglement of characters.

Even days after finishing I still had ah-ha moments when I suddenly understood how and why some things happened and who was connected to whom.

Wish there was a sequel where you learn more about the characters. Some parts are eerily recognizable now we had a real pandemic.

Mind you; the book is not sci-fi! It is our world after a pandemic; no fancy, crazy tech is used or invented in the book.

reviewed Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

A superb novel

I have read many post-apocalypse novels, and this is one of the best. Where it differs from the others is that it includes a lot of contemplative ideas about memory and loss, about what we value in our lives. There are parallel narratives from before and after the apocalypse. The "disaster porn" element of it, where you imagine what it would be like to be one of the survivors, is superbly done. But the accounts of the everyday life of the characters beforehand are also compelling . Emily is just a great writer, she has that way with words that creates an internal voice you just can't stop listening to.

Like Margaret Attwood and Kazuo Ishiguro, this author is one of those writers who denies they are SF authors. I am an unashamed genre tribalist - conventions, cosplay, the lot. But it doesn't matter in the end. This is just …

reviewed Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Gripping Read

This was recommended to me and I went in knowing very little about it.

I found it to be a really gripping novel; hard to put down. I was really excited to see how the characters lives intersected and how they handled the trauma of the devastating pandemic.

The book tells the story of the characters at various stages of their lives ranging from many years before the pandemic, to around 20 years after. This gives a really interesting perspective on the characters, and keeps the pace of the book fast and interesting.

Highly recommended!

reviewed Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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Enjoyable thought experiment on what the world might be like after a colossal epidemic. Unfortunately, my reading was a bit disjointed, due to no fault of the author, because my copy had 20 pages ripped out of it at the very end. I had to wait for a library copy to continue. So my review is not coherent and a result... But I can say it is beautifully written and if you need a captivating sci-fi read, you'll enjoy this book.

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