The release date for the English version of 'The Circus Train' by
Amita Parikh is Mar 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Nothing is as it appears in the World of Wonders, the most exquisite traveling circus in Europe, particularly for the performers. Everything is filled with enchantment.
Lena Papadopoulos, the daughter of the remarkable headliner illusionist Theo, has never quite fit in at the circus. Notwithstanding her father's overprotectiveness and the restrictions her environment throws on her due to her disability, Lena is a bright and inquisitive person who longs for the real-world wonder of science and medicine. When she comes to the aid of Alexandre, an orphan with his own secrets and a shadowy history, her unusual existence takes an exciting turn. Over the course of many years, as their relationship grows and Alexandre receives training to become an illusionist, the Second World War intensifies all around them. Lena loses all she knows when Theo and Alexandre are forced to labor and perform in a mock town for Jews that the Nazis have constructed. Lena is forced to forge her own path and must face her uncertainties while daring to trust in the impossibility of believing in oneself.
The Circus Train is a must-read for lovers of Water for Elephants and The Night Circus because it transports readers on an amazing and heartbreaking two-decade odyssey throughout Europe. How can you get the strength to keep going when all seems lost?