And the reason for that is that I feel that most dystopian fiction tends to dwell on that immediate aftermath of horror and mayhem. I very purposely set much of the action 15 and then 20 years after that flu pandemic. "No countries, no internet, no more Facebook, no more email. "No cities," she tells NPR's Scott Simon. But book awards and paperback releases are a thing of the past in the world Mandel has created. It won several major awards, was an NPR Books Concierge pick, and it's just come out in paperback. And the novel skips forward 20 years to a young woman who was just eight when she was on stage with that actor and is now trying to make her way in a world that's been shorn of most of what we call civilization.
But soon, within minutes, the death of one man playing Lear disappears into the vast, mass death of a worldwide plague called the Georgia Flu. His co-stars can't remember if he had a family to notify. John Mandel's new novel, Station Eleven, opens with a vain actor - and is there really any other kind? - who dies of a heart attack onstage as he plays King Lear in Toronto. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Station Eleven Author Emily St.
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