第十一站 – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

雪夜，一位男演员猝死在话剧《李尔王》的舞台上。数小时后，人类文明因为一场流行瘟疫而分崩离析。

格鲁吉亚流感爆发后的第二十年，旅行交响乐团在末世废土上巡演，为散布在各定居点的幸存者送去音乐和莎士比亚戏剧。

在水边小镇圣德博拉，一位癫狂的先知将乐团众人逼上了逃亡之路，这段旅途的终点是一座据说保留了旧日遗迹的“文明博物馆”。

Set in the days of civilization’s 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 actor’s 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 actor’s first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.

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