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Compartment

DATE: 2018-10-05  SIZE: 828.06 KB  DISKS: 1x 10MB     PAGES: n/a

PUBLISHER: Serpent's Tail                    GENRE:

AUTHOR: Rosa Liksom

FORMAT: EPUB  PROTECTION: DRM  EDITION: n/a

URL: https://is.gd/CydI6p

LANGUAGE: English   ISBN: 9781847659231

: A sad young woman boards a train in Moscow. Bound for Mongolia, she's      :
: trying to leave a broken relationship as far behind her as she can. Wantin :
: to be alone, she chooses an empty compartment - No 6. Her solitude is soon :
: shattered by the arrival of a fellow passenger: Vadim Nikolayevich Ivanov, :
: a grizzled, opinionated and foul-mouthed ex-soldier, 'a cauliflower-eared  :
: man in a black workingman's overcoat and a white ermine hat'. Vadim fills  :
: the compartment with his long and colourful stories, recounting his sexual :
: conquests and violent fights in lurid detail. At first, the young woman is :
: not so much shocked as disgusted by him, and she stands up to him, throwin :
: a boot at his head. But though Vadim may be crude, he isn't cruel, and he  :
: shares with her the sausage and black bread and tea he's brought for the   :
: journey, coaxing the girl out of her melancholy state. As their train cuts :
: slowly across a wintery Russia, where 'everything is moving, snow, water,  :
: air, clouds, wind, towns, villages, people and ideas', a grudging kind of  :
: companionship grows between the two inhabitants of Compartment No 6 and th :
: girl realises that if she works out how to listen, Vadim's stories may jus :
: contain lessons for her. Compartment No 6 is a wickedly mischievous, darkl :
: imaginative and completely unforgettable ride.                             :

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