The Literature Express Portugal on the face of it

on the face of it

wondering how to tell us anything about such empty lives

and nonfiction since 1983

from his Algarve vacation back to Lisbon and the mental-hospital job he hates

The Literature Express Portugal on the face of itA 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