长篇小说“Station Eleven”获得2015年多伦多图书奖

Image/Courtesy of Toronto Public Library    Emily St. John的长篇小说"Mandel Station Eleven"获得2015年多伦多图书奖

Emily St. John Mandel 的长篇小说”Station Eleven“获得2015年多伦多图书奖。

这部小说以戏剧演员的生活为主线，讲述五个人物的命运交叉，既有回忆，也有对未来15年后生活的描述。小说以多伦多著名的古老剧院Elgin Theatre的场景开篇。

这部小说是从最后入围的5部作品中脱颖而出，入围作品包括阿特伍德（Margaret Atwood）的“Stone Mattress”。

多伦多图书奖关于“ Station Eleven”一书的授奖词：

Station Eleven is a brilliant meditation on what makes us human.  It begins with a performance of King Lear at Toronto’s Elgin Theatre, in the final days before a pandemic destroys the world as we know it.  Fifteen years later, we follow a ragtag troupe of actors and musicians as they travel around the devastated landscape, performing for whomever has managed to escape the plague.  The group’s motto -- “Because survival is insufficient” – is also the cri de coeur of this beautiful and haunting novel.

多伦多图书馆对这本书的介绍：

An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels.

One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theatre troupe known as the Travelling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame

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