Paris Express: A Novel - Emma Donoghue

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Title: Paris Express: A Novel
Author: Emma Donoghue
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-18-2025
Publisher: HarperAvenue
Genres: History, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Europe, Literary Fiction

Summary:
From Emma Donoghue, author of Room, The Wonder and Pull of the Stars comes a taut and suspenseful historical novel that reimagines an 1895 French railway disaster, an event famously documented in dramatic photographs Set over a single day, as the morning train travels from the Normandy coast to Paris, men, women and children take their seats in the passenger cars, which are divided by wealth and status. Among the passengers is an anarchist intent on destruction, a young boy travelling alone, a pregnant woman fleeing her home village for the anonymity of the big city, a medical student who suspects a girl may have a fatal disease, and the railway men, devoted to the train, to the company and to each other. Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs, The Paris Express is a thrilling ride and a literary masterpiece that captures the politics, fears and chaos of the end of the nineteenth century.