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The Times

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article736743.ece

The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-railway-by-hamid-ismailov-translated-by-robert-chandler-468197.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/paperbacks-the-moment-you-were-gonebrblind-willow-sleeping-womanbrthe-railwaybrthe-brodsky-touchbrthe-quranbrthe-aeneidbrex-and-the-city-754797.html

The Sunday Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3652866/A-richly-peopled-Russian-epic.html

The Daily Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3651777/Steppe-by-steppe-into-a-brave-new-world.html

TLS

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/incomingFeeds/article677386.ece

New Statesman

http://www.newstatesman.com/200603130043

Time Out

http://www.timeout.com/london/books/review/book/27/the_railway_by_hamid_ismailov.html

Hidden Europe

http://www.timeout.com/london/books/review/book/27/the_railway_by_hamid_ismailov.html

Registan.net

http://www.registan.net/index.php/2008/06/02/the-railway-by-hamid-ismailov/