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    The Gentleman from Finland; Adventures on the Trans-Siberian Express

    By Robert M. Goldstein

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    Two days aboard what he believes is the Trans-Siberian Express, the author discovers he’s on the wrong train. It is 1987, and he is traveling in the Soviet Union, holding a train ticket that mistakenly identifies him as a Finn. In fact, he is a short, swarthy Mexican-American-Russian-Jew, who speaks only enough Russian to proclaim that he is Bob, the tourist from America. As the trip unfolds, what begins as the fulfillment of a childhood dream becomes a journey with a cast of characters worthy of a Russian novel. A grim old woman takes his only pair of shoes. Mr. K., a tour director in Novosibirsk, is shocked when an actual tourist turns up during the middle of an ice storm. A beautiful Russian woman rescues the author from disaster in one city, only to mysteriously reappear in another, fueling his growing paranoia that she is a KGB agent. Throughout the story, Goldstein interjects historical anecdotes, as well as his own family’s past in czarist Russia. The Gentleman from Finland is a sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant story of the misadventures of a traveler who discovers that a journey on the world’s longest rail line is much more than just a big train ride.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJul 1, 2011
    ISBN9780976328834
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      I enjoyed the book very much and couldn't put it down. This was do to the fact that I wanted to find out what other characters Goldstein was going to meet on the Sibirsk, the Trans-Siberian Express or in the cities that he stops in not to mention the nightmare of arrangements it took to make the trip possible. Then there's the fact that his Russian consisted of "I am Bob. I am a tourist. I am American. I do not speak Russian." Scary! At least when I visited my cousins in western Norway we could find some common words even though they were speaking Nynorsk and while I had learned the official Bokmal. It was a fun read but I'm glad it wasn't me in the Soviet Union starting out on the wrong train.