STATION ELEVEN – Romance, by Emily St. John Mandel

STATION ELEVEN

An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, one snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named watches in horror as Jeevan performs, pumping Arthur’s chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Fifteen years later, Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony. Together, this small troupe moves between the settlements of an altered world, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. A novel of art, memory, and ambition, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.

http://www.amazon.com/Station-Eleven-Emily-John-Mandel/dp/0385353308