This is the kind of book that gets described as “a delightful romp” in press materials, and that’s not an inaccurate description of a book that functions beautifully as both send-up of high society and globe-spanning adventure story, but the novel has a deathly serious core.
Back in the USSR: On Maurice DeKobra’s The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars by Emily St. John Mandel

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