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Reviewed on November 1, 2004
The alienated, misanthropic narrator of this fabulistic Bildungsroman leaves England one day and sets off without a destination in mind. He hitches a ride with a philosophical truck driver who is smuggling books into a nameless Eastern European dictatorship. When the driver is killed in an ambush by the secret police, the narrator is left to make his way alone, not knowing where he is or how to get ho...Log In or Sign Up to Read More



