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Key ideas from the book
- The novel is based on the 1895 disaster at Paris’s Montparnasse train station.
- A varied group of passengers, from several countries and regions, share the train’s journey.
- Their circumstances include political duties, medical concern, new moving-picture technology, and family choices.
- The story evokes the politics, glamour, chaos, and speed of the late nineteenth century.
About The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue
Set aboard a train in 1895, Emma Donoghue’s historical novel is based on the disaster at Paris’s Montparnasse station. Its passengers come from places including Brittany, Russia, Ireland, Algeria, Pennsylvania, and Cambodia, bringing a range of lives and concerns into the same journey.
Among them are members of parliament hurrying to vote, a medical student worried about a girl’s condition, a secretary advocating for moving pictures, and a young anarchist with a dangerous plan. The novel offers readers an eventful portrait of the politics, glamour, chaos, and speed associated with the end of the nineteenth century.
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