Set in the days of civilizations collapse, Station Eleven tells the 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 a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time—from the actors early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains—this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actors first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.
خواندن متن اصلی انگلیسی
Set in the days of civilizations collapse, Station Eleven tells the 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 a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time—from the actors early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains—this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actors first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.
شناسنامهٔ کتاب
- تعداد صفحات
- ۳۳۳
- زبان
- English
- ناشر
- Knopf
- شابک
- 9780000000000
مکان روایت
- Toronto
- Ontario (Canada)
- Michigan (United States
تورنتو، انتاریو (کانادا)، میشیگان (ایالات متحده آمریکا)
جوایز
- Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2015)
- Arthur C. Clarke Award (2015)
- Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Nominee for Bestes ausländisches Werk (Best Foreign Work) (2016)
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2015)
- Sunburst Award Nominee for Adult (2015)
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2015)
۹ جایزهٔ دیگر
- British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Horror Novel (August Derleth Award) (2015)
- NAIBA Book of the Year for Fiction (2015)
- Toronto Book Award Nominee (2015)
- The Great Michigan Read (2015)
- Womens Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2015)
- Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2015)
- National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2014)
- Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2014)
- The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books (2015
