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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
A work of Non-fiction by Paul Theroux
Subgenres:
- Travel Writing,
- Asia Travel,
- Europe Travel
This book is for you if you're into...
- Travelogues revisiting places decades later to see what’s changed
- On-the-ground encounters with locals and famous writers alike
- Train journeys across shifting political and cultural landscapes
The acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar retraces his legendary journey through Europe and Asia in this travelogue.
Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his 25,000-mile journey by train through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia.
Three decades later, the world he recorded in The Great Railway Bazaar has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed and China has risen; India booms while Burma smothers under dictatorship; Vietnam flourishes in the aftermath of the havoc America was unleashing on it the last time Theroux passed through.
Now Theroux returns to capture the texture, sights, smells, and sounds of this new landscape. Theroux's odyssey takes him from eastern Europe, still hung-over from communism.
He experiences a tense but thriving Turkey, and a Georgia limping back toward feudalism while its neighbor Azerbaijan revels in oil-fueled capitalism.
Through it all, Theroux travels as the locals do—by train, bus, taxi, and foot; he encounters fellow writers, including Orhan Pamuk, Haruki Murakami, and Arthur C. Clarke; and, as always, his omnivorous curiosity and unerring eye for detail capture it all.
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