The People's Train

· Open Road Media
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Artem Samsurov, an ardent follower of Lenin and a hero of the rebellion, flees his Siberian labor camp for the sanctuary of Brisbane, Australia in 1911. Failing to find the worker’s paradise and brotherhood he imagined, Artem quickly joins the agitation for a general strike among the growing trade union movement. He finds a fellow spirit in a dangerously attractive female lawyer and becomes entangled in the death of another Tsarist exile. But, Atrem can’t overcome the corruption, repression, and injustice of the conservative Brisbane. When he returns to Russia in 1917 for the Red October, will his beliefs stand?
 
Based on the true story of Artem Sergeiv, a Russian immigrant in Australia who would play a vital role in the Russian Revolution, The People’s Train explores the hearts of the men and women who fueled, compromised, and passionately fought for their ideals.

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Thomas Keneally is the celebrated writer of Shindler’s Ark, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1982 and was later made into the Steven Spielberg–Academy Award-winning film Schindler’s List. He has written over thirty books, both fiction and non-fiction, as well as plays and essays. He won the Miles Franklin Award consecutively for his novels Bring Larks and Heroes (1967) and Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968). The People’s Train was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, South East Asia division. His most recent novels are The Daughters Of Mars, which was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in 2013, and Shame and the Captives. His non-fiction includes the memoirs Homebush Boy and Searching For Schindler; Three Famines, an LA Times Book of the Year; and the histories The Commonwealth of Thieves, The Great Shame, American Scoundrel and the three volume series Australians. Keneally was born in 1935 in New South Wales and now lives in Sydney with his wife and two daughters.
 

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