About the book: 1988 / The novel "Train" and Ilya Shtemler's previous novels "Taxi Park", "Department Store" constitute a single conventional genre of "urban business novel". The events that take place in "The Train" affect each of us when we become passengers. Therefore, in addition to the passengers, the heroes of the novel are the conductors, the train manager, the station manager, the deputy minister and many administrative officials on whom the fate of the railway depends.