Eric in Ohio’s Reviews > Eastbound > Status Update

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

“…he’s in Krasnoyarsk, a city he knows nothing about and where he will have to survive, alone, forsaken, poor, without shelter — what madness is he embarking on? Doesn’t he know that in hostile territory the solution is always collective? Who dos he think he is? Before he runs, he still has to get past his filthy ignorance and know where he’s putting his feet.”