First published in 1993 and shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize. It has enjoyed great success at Russia and in Europe. It has the epic intensity of Dostoievsky and a love affair as touching as in Doctor Zhivago. At times erotic, brutal, mysterious and moving it has a surreal quality that lingers in the mind long after the final pages have been read. The setting is a Soviet railway settlement Siding No9, an NKVD run line which serves the so-called Zero Train. The cargo of this sealed 100-wagon train is unknown to the ...
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First published in 1993 and shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize. It has enjoyed great success at Russia and in Europe. It has the epic intensity of Dostoievsky and a love affair as touching as in Doctor Zhivago. At times erotic, brutal, mysterious and moving it has a surreal quality that lingers in the mind long after the final pages have been read. The setting is a Soviet railway settlement Siding No9, an NKVD run line which serves the so-called Zero Train. The cargo of this sealed 100-wagon train is unknown to the employees of the siding as is the train's provenance; some suspect something sinister and become obsessed by the mystery. The attempted disentanglement of the mystery, which leads to madness and murder, is at the heart of the novel. The train itself forms the basis of a dense web of symbols examining the nature of life lived in the service of an ideal neither known or understood, thus allowing The Zero Train to be read as a study of the ordinary individual under Stalinism. The novel begins with Don Domino, an old man watching a now almost deserted settlement unable to comprehend in his gathering insanity that the track is no longer there and that the Zero train has
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