Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.
Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.
Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.
Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.
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Speculative fiction and narrative intrigue intersect in multi-layered stories that examine human resilience, memory, and art during existential crises. Emily St. John Mandel gained widespread international recognition with her fourth novel, Station Eleven, which depicts a world restructured after a devastating flu pandemic and traces the survival of culture through a traveling theater troupe.
Born in 1979 in Merville, British Columbia, Canada, Emily St. John Fairbanks studied contemporary dance at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. She lived briefly in Montreal before moving to New York City to establish her writing career. Her debut novel, Last Night in Montreal, appeared in 2009, followed by The Singer's Gun in 2010—which won the 2014 Prix Mystère de la Critique in France—and The Lola Quartet in 2012. Her early novels were selected as Indie Next Picks, establishing her foundational work in literary fiction.
Mandel achieved major critical and commercial success with Station Eleven in 2014, followed by The Glass Hotel in 2020 and Sea of Tranquility in 2022. She lives in New York City and Los Angeles, continuing to publish widely translated novels and essays.
Mandel's writing merges literary fiction with elements of science fiction, mystery, and speculative time travel. Her work frequently explores interconnected lives disrupted by crisis, white-collar crime, pandemics, or anomalous glitches in time. Rather than concentrating solely on tragedy or collapse, her stories emphasize cultural preservation, human connection, and the lingering influence of art across distant eras.
1 books in catalog
Speculative fiction and narrative intrigue intersect in multi-layered stories that examine human resilience, memory, and art during existential crises. Emily St. John Mandel gained widespread international recognition with her fourth novel, Station Eleven, which depicts a world restructured after a devastating flu pandemic and traces the survival of culture through a traveling theater troupe.
Born in 1979 in Merville, British Columbia, Canada, Emily St. John Fairbanks studied contemporary dance at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. She lived briefly in Montreal before moving to New York City to establish her writing career. Her debut novel, Last Night in Montreal, appeared in 2009, followed by The Singer's Gun in 2010—which won the 2014 Prix Mystère de la Critique in France—and The Lola Quartet in 2012. Her early novels were selected as Indie Next Picks, establishing her foundational work in literary fiction.
Mandel achieved major critical and commercial success with Station Eleven in 2014, followed by The Glass Hotel in 2020 and Sea of Tranquility in 2022. She lives in New York City and Los Angeles, continuing to publish widely translated novels and essays.
Mandel's writing merges literary fiction with elements of science fiction, mystery, and speculative time travel. Her work frequently explores interconnected lives disrupted by crisis, white-collar crime, pandemics, or anomalous glitches in time. Rather than concentrating solely on tragedy or collapse, her stories emphasize cultural preservation, human connection, and the lingering influence of art across distant eras.
