The Literature Express Poetry “Spiegel … writes of friendship

“Spiegel … writes of friendship and of growing up

a “totally Bulgakovian” episode

Origin Unknown is a remarkable and incisive debut

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

and heads out into the world—to make her mark

The Literature Express Poetry “Spiegel … writes of friendshipA 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