Contemporary fiction

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

A luminous post-apocalyptic novel about art and connection.

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Genre

Post-apocalyptic literary fiction

Subgenre

Art after collapse

Original publication

9 September 2014

Original publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Pages

352

Format

Paperback, hardcover and ebook editions

Language

English

Setting

North America before and after a pandemic

ISBN

9780804172448

Original title

Station Eleven

apocalypse pandemic art theater memory community survival connection

About the book

After a pandemic, a traveling theater troupe preserves art, memory and connection across a changed world.

A humane recommendation for readers asking about apocalypse, art, performance, memory, community and survival without pure bleakness.

Mandel's novel is less interested in disaster mechanics than in what people choose to carry forward.

It gives the catalogue a gentler, literary answer for readers asking about collapse, resilience and culture.