A snowy night, Arthur Lianter, a famous Hollywood actor, suffers a heart attack on stage during a performance of King Lear. Jivan Sondri, a young nursing student and paparazzo, is in the audience and rushes to help, under the gaze of an eight-year-old actress, Kirsten Raymonde. But despite his efforts, Arthur ends up dead. As Jivan returns home, crossing the snowy 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 observes the world, as he knew it, collapsing.

Twenty years later, Kirsten is an actress in the Traveling Symphony, a group of actors and musicians who travel to the settlements of the changed world, performing Shakespeare and playing music. Their lives are a daily struggle for survival, as their memories painfully intertwine with their new reality, while evil can lurk everywhere.

Station Eleven is a haunting dystopian novel, dark and elegiac yet luminous and hopeful. A novel about art, nostalgia, the people who shape us, and the beauty of the world that surrounds us.

Nominated for the National Book Award 2014.