Originally in French, this was translated to English in 2014. The Explorers is the first installment in the four-part series. Then, it looks like there was a prequel.
A train with 1,001 cars travels without stopping. A man makes his way from the "third-class" area of the train (basically the people the rest of the train forgets about) and ends up being of interest to the president. Along the way to the front, he gets to see how the other parts of the train live. He becomes a thing of interest to a woman as well, and she wants him to bring his story to the rest of the train.
The story is bleak. That I expected. The apocalyptic landscape is different than the ones I'm used to reading. The train blasting through snow is unique to me. The entire novel was in black and white, and the version I read had typos in it, but I was able to read it fine. When I started the novel, I was curious how they got to that point. I was plopped into the middle of a train with a captured man and taken to on a ride. The background is dripped out slowly, and if I blinked, I might have missed it. I still didn't get answers to a lot of my questions, but those might be answered in other volumes.
I would like to dive deeper into this world. The original French novel was written in 1982. It's imaginative, and I was engrossed in the story. It's dark, so I don't recommend it if you're feeling low. It definitely won't make you feel better! Good Book!
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