Train to Budapest
Dacia Maraini's novel of a Florentine journalist who travels behind the Iron Curtain in 1956 to search for a childhood friend, translated by Silvester Mazzarella.
Train to Budapest (Il treno dell’ultima notte) was published in Italian in 2008. Dacia Maraini describes it as set in 1956 during the Cold War: a young journalist from Florence is sent to write about life behind the Iron Curtain and uses the trip to search for a childhood friend, the son of a Jewish family who returned to Austria in 1939 and disappeared in 1942. Silvester Mazzarella translated this Arcadia Books edition.
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