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Language English Media type Print & ebook ISBN 0-00-225906-0 Page count 224 | 4/5 Goodreads Publication date 1999 Pages 224 Originally published 1999 Genre Tragicomedy Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All Quiet on the Orient Express is the second novel by Booker shortlisted author Magnus Mills, published in 1999. As with his first novel it is a tragi-comedy with an unnamed narrator dealing with apparently simple but increasingly sinister situations.
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Plot introduction
The narrator is spending a few weeks camping in the Lake District before setting out on a motorcycle trip to India. He agrees to help the campsite owner, Tom Parker by performing a simple chore, painting a gate but one thing inexorably leads to another and he finds himself drawn in to a succession of disparate tasks, each more complex and time-consuming and from which there appears to be no escape...
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Film adaptation
According to The New York Times the novel is being adapted into film by Idiotlamp Productions, directed by Jim Field Smith.