Ein sehr verwunderliches Buch, wie alles von Emily St. John Mandel. Ich wurde durch die Miniserie "Station Eleven" im Streaming darauf aufmerksam und finde beides zwar nahezu komplett unterschiedlich, aber auch grandios. Ohne zu spoilern: was geschieht, wenn man bei der Apokalypse dabei ist und zu den wenigen Überlebenden zählt.
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"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 theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this 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"--Provided by publisher.