"No Stopping Train" is the magnum opus and final novel of the late
writer Les Plesko, a powerful, swirling novel of memory and
violence set during the Hungarian Revolution.
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a spontaneous nationwide
revolt following World War II that spread quickly across the
destabilizing country. A new government pledged to re-establish
free elections until a large Soviet force invaded, killing more
than 2500 Hungarians and forcing 200,000 Hungarians to flee the
country. Mass arrests and denunciations continued for months until
a new Soviet-installed government suppressed all opposition. Public
discussion of this revolution was suppressed in Hungary for more
than thirty years.
Although the revolution failed, it served as a source of great
inspiration to many Hungarians, and here Les Plesko taps into his
country's history as the dramatic backdrop to his most accomplished
and powerful novel. Sandor and Margit are young lovers suffering
with their nation through the degradations of war, hunger, and
political oppression in Budapest. Into their lives comes the
mercurial Erzsebet - ravaged, war-torn, alluring. Their eventual
love triangle upends an already tenuous existence and threatens
what little safety they have found in a nation on the brink of
revolution. When Sandor's activities as an underground publisher
are exposed in a vicious act of betrayal, the lives of each of our
characters will never be the same.
"No Stopping Train" is a stylistic tour de force and the final work
of Les Plesko.
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