On a snowy night, Arthur Leander, a famous Hollywood actor, suffers a heart attack on stage during a performance of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a young paparazzo studying nursing, is in the audience and rushes to help, under the gaze of an eight-year-old actress, Kirsten Raymonde. However, despite his efforts, Arthur ends up dead.
As Jeevan makes his way home through the snow-covered Toronto, he learns that a deadly flu has broken out and is spreading rapidly. He decides to barricade himself in his brother's apartment in a skyscraper, from where he watches the world as he knew it collapse.
Twenty years later, Kirsten is an actress in the Traveling Symphony, a group of actors and musicians who roam the changed world, performing Shakespeare and playing music in settlements. Their life is a daily struggle for survival, as their memories painfully intertwine with their new reality, while evil may be lurking everywhere.
Station Eleven is a haunting dystopian novel, dark and elegiac yet also radiant and hopeful. It is a novel about art, nostalgia, the people who touch our lives, and the beauty of the world that surrounds us.
