The Railway
"Imagine Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude on the empty plains of central Asia . . . a bold and inventive, if damning, whirl through Central Asia's 20th-century history."  —Daily Telegraph"A work of rare beauty—an utterly readable, compelling book."  —New Statesman"All picaresque exuberance, a jumble of influences from Persian to Soviet and beyond."  —Sunday Herald"Robert Chandler's tenderly attentive rendering ofThe Railwayperfectly captures the dreamy, circling music of Hamid Ismailov's prose."  —Daily Telegraph