The Yellow Arrow
"A Russian train that makes no stops, the Yellow Arrow has no end and no beginning, and its destination is a broken bridge. Andrei, less and less lulled by the never-ending hum of the wheels, begins to look for a way to escape. But life in the compartments is going on as always. Indifferent to their fate, the passengers carry on as usual - trading in nickel melted down from carriage doors, attending the Upper Bunk avant-garde theater, leafing through Pasternak's Early Trains, or disposing of their dead through the compartment windows" --from book jacket.