The Literature Express Poetry and heads out into the

and heads out into the world—to make her mark

“Spiegel … writes of friendship and of growing up

several mysteries

apocalyptic novel that brings together the end of the Third Reich with the closing of the twentieth century

The Literature Express Poetry and heads out into theA parable from Georgia involving a hundred writers, a train, and a month long trip across Europe. A bevy of mediocre writers are invited to a seminar aboard a specially chartered train, and this novel tracks their progress across Europe: bitter, bickering, and self absorbed. Aboard this Literature Express is a Georgian author whose love for the wife of his own Polish translator seems as doomed as his hopes for international success; worse still, it