The Trains of Europe Launch Events

‘The Trains of Europe’ by John Holten Book Launch: Live Podcast ‘Empathy When’ with Mitch Speed

Please join us for a live podcast conversation as part of the series Empathy When (in collaboration with Tropez) at the Kunstkniepe Schmetterling on March 7 at 7pm. This marks the first launch event of Holten’s new novel The Trains of Europe.

A love story wrapped up in a post-apocalyptic survival narrative, The Trains of Europe is a novel told backwards, which invites the reader to fill in the blanks around humanity’s notions of unfettered progress.

Like Cocteau running the  lm strip backwards to make shredded  flowers whole, dead loved ones live again, Holten reverses the end of time itself, to wonderful effect. — Tom McCarthy, author of Remainder and C

“The Trains of Europe is a brilliant, gripping, portentous, strangely tender novel, ingeniously composed.” ― Sara Baume, author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither and Seven Steeples

John Holten is a novelist. His two novels The Readymades (2011) and Oslo, Norway (2015) were published by Broken Dimanche Press, which he co-founded in Berlin in 2009. His writing has been published in frieze, gorse, The Stinging Fly, Electric Literature among other places.

Mitch Speed is an artist and writer based in Berlin. His book about Mark Leckey’s 1999 video artwork Fiorruci Made Me Hardcore, was published Afterall Books in Autumn 2019. He contributes to several publications, including Frieze, Mousse, Momus, and Camera Austria.