beguiling, end times. Increasingly, and for obvious reasons, end-times novels are not hard to find... with as much spooky melancholic beauty as Mandel does in her beguiling fourth novel.

 

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel 2014

Increasingly, and for obvious reasons, end-times novels are not hard to find. But few have conjured the strange luck of surviving an apocalypse — civilization preserved via the ad hoc Shakespeare of a traveling theater troupe; entire human ecosystems contained in an abandoned airport — with as much spooky melancholic beauty as Mandel does in her beguiling fourth novel.

end times pl (plural only) (Christianity) The days leading up to the second coming of the Messiah (Christ), when the world will be judged.

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beguiling

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adjective

1. charming or enchanting, often in a deceptive way.

   "a beguiling mixture of English, French, and Italian"

第十一站

艾米麗·聖·約翰·曼德爾 2014

由於顯而易見的原因，末世小說越來越不難找到。但很少人能在末世中存活下來──透過旅行劇團特設的莎士比亞戲劇來保存文明；整個人類生態系統都包含在一個廢棄的機場中——就像曼德爾在她迷人的第四部小說中所表現出的陰森憂鬱之美一樣。