The media goes dead, then the internet, and finally utilities. In days, nearly everyone around the world dies. Before long, every last one is dead, and all who came in contact are sick, including Hua. The hospital is full of flu cases, many but not all from a plane from Russia. Jeevan’s friend Hua, working at a hospital, calls, urging Jeevan to leave immediately. That night, as the snow fell on Toronto, was the beginning of the end of civilization. A kind woman takes her aside, noticing an unusual graphic novel of a settlement of survivors on a watery planet, Station Eleven, a gift from Arthur that Kirsten carries for the next twenty years. Watching is a young child actor, Kirsten Raymonde, who often talked to Arthur. Summary: An account of the end of civilization as we know it after a catastrophic pandemic, and how survivors sought to keep beauty and the memory of what was alive as they struggled against destructive forces to rebuild human society.Īrthur Leander, an accomplished actor who burned through marriages, is on stage in the middle of performing King Lear when his own heart gives out and he dies on stage, despite the effort of a medic in training, Jeevan.
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