GoodReads (Print) The Paris Express Book Giveaway

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Enter the GoodReads giveaway for The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue. Inspired by an 1895 catastrophe immortalized in a series of haunting, almost unreal photographs, this novel hurtles forward aboard a train crowded with travelers from Brittany to Russia, Ireland to Algeria, Pennsylvania to Cambodia. Members of parliament race back to Paris for a crucial vote; a medical student fears a young girl is slipping toward death; a secretary tries to persuade her employer that moving pictures are the future; two crewmen carve out a secret life far from their wives; a young anarchist sets a chilling plan in motion, and that’s only the beginning.
From an author praised for “superb alchemy” by Audrey Niffenegger, The Paris Express vividly evokes the politics, glamour, upheaval, and accelerating pace that defined the final years of the 19th century.