(From the author’s acknowledgments, we learn that this addition to Shakespeare’s play is taken from an actual production of “Lear” staged by James Lapine in 2007 at the Public Theater.) When we meet Kirsten again, 20 years have passed and there is no more Toronto. There is barely time for people to absorb this shock when tragedy on a considerably vaster scale arrives in the form of a flu pandemic so lethal that, within weeks, most of the world’s population has been killed.Īmong the people on the scene the night of Arthur’s death is Kirsten Raymonde, an 8-year-old actress playing a tiny nonspeaking role as one of Lear’s daughters as a child. One night, in a Toronto theater, onstage performing the role of King Lear, 51-year-old Arthur Leander has a fatal heart attack. John Mandel’s fourth novel, “Station Eleven,” begins with a spectacular end.
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