Station Eleven A novel

A wonderful book that set within...

Bewertung am 23.10.2022
Bewertungsnummer: 1811160
Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)

A wonderful book that set within an post apocalyptic world that was hit by a pandemic. It encapsulates in beautiful writing the lives of the people before and after the world as we know it ends. The prose makes the characters shine and it makes the story as lovely as it is sad.

"Hell is the absence of the people we long for."

Bewertung am 07.07.2023
Bewertungsnummer: 1975952
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)

Before the world stood still, three people meet under most unpleasant and confusing circumstances. They don't know it yet, and won't remember for a long time, but they are destined to meet again- despite all the death and destruction they will come to face. The book is beautifully written with delicate prose that makes it hard to tear your eyes away from the pages. It connects the intricate storylines of every person with ease and - despite having a simple plot - the true highlight lies in the examination of the world before and after the apocalypse and the conclusions the characters inside the book make about it. Mandel manages to pack so much into these 300 pages: How we live in a world that doesn't really want us in it anymore. How people and humanity can only be remembered by the stories told about them. And how every human tells those stories differently. "Station Eleven" shows how the absence of the world as we once knew it makes space for infinite possibility. And infinite beauty.