Status Updates From Eastbound

the passage about the provodnista holding the country in her body o

Translation: “Both of them all the way to Vladivostok — in other words three days and three nights in the train — it’s unplayable.”
Really, unplayable!

“…and she who had reserved both bunks in the compartment so she might be alone with an opening to Siberia to remember and imagine — two ways of seeing clearly — she had welcomed this stranger. She turns her eyes and lets them drift outside: what’s done is done.”

Hanap - obsolete term for a goblet