Vincent pracuje jako barmanka v hotelu Caiette, pětihvězdičkovém úkrytu ze skla a dřeva na ostrově Vancouver, kam se dá dostat jedině na člunu. Ve chvíli, kdy jí majitel hotelu dá spolu se spropitným i svou vizitku, se její život otočí o sto osmdesát stupňů. Nebude to poprvé ani naposledy. A také nebude jediná. Ten den zasáhne do života i jejímu nevlastnímu bratru Paulovi (závislému často na drogách, ale vždycky na hudbě) nebo vysoce postavenému manažeru lodní logistiky Leonovi. O třináct let později na jedné lodi jejich příběhy vyvrcholí. Ale možná je to jen další začátek. Protože časy, místa a děje tvoří síť, v níž se postavy setkávají. Ať jsou živé, nebo mrtvé.

The New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015 Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2015 2014 National Book Awards Finalist 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the same again. Twenty years later Kirsten, an actress in the Travelling Symphony, performs Shakespeare in the settlements that have grown up since the collapse. But then her newly hopeful world is threatened. If civilization was lost, what would you preserve? And how far would you go to protect it? 'BEST NOVEL. The big one ...One of the 2014 books that I did read stands above all the others: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel ...beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac, a book that I will long remember, and return to.' George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones 'Emily St.John Mandel's Station Eleven is that rare find that feels familiar and extraordinary at the same time. This is truly something special' Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus

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