Gérard de Chergé Books

DAY ONE The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. WEEK TWO Civilization has crumbled. YEAR TWENTY A band of actors and musicians called the Travelling Symphony move through their territories performing concerts and Shakespeare to the settlements that have grown up there. Twenty years after the pandemic, life feels relatively safe. But now a new danger looms, and he threatens the hopeful world every survivor has tried to rebuild. STATION ELEVEN Moving backwards and forwards in time, from the glittering years just before the collapse to the strange and altered world that exists twenty years after, Station Eleven charts the unexpected twists of fate that connect six people: famous actor Arthur Leander; Jeevan - warned about the flu just in time; Arthur's first wife Miranda; Arthur's oldest friend Clark; Kirsten, a young actress with the Travelling Symphony; and the mysterious and self-proclaimed 'prophet'. Thrilling, unique and deeply moving, this is a beautiful novel that asks questions about art and fame and about the relationships that sustain us through anything - even the end of the world.

Dans une ville du Midwest, par un après-midi torride, un homme et une femme sont en train de faire l'amour dans une chambre de motel quand, soudain, la porte s'ouvre. Une silhouette se profile. Suit une double détonation... Les deux victimes sont Barbara Fulraine, égérie de la haute société, et son amant Tom Jessup, modeste professeur. Comment cette grande bourgeoise a-t-elle pu finir d'une façon aussi sordide ? Qui a tué les deux amants ? Vingt-six ans après les faits, le dessinateur judiciaire David Weiss revient dans cette ville où il a grandi, à l'occasion d'un procès. Il va tenter de trouver une réponse à ces questions qui n'ont cessé de le hanter. Une quête dont il ne sortira pas indemne.