Yoko Tawada is better known as the author of The Emissary and Memoirs of a Polar Bear, but she has a long backlist of titles, originally written in Japanese or German, and I like a bi- or multi-lingual writer!
The narrator of Train de nuit avec suspects (Night train with suspects) is a dancer who takes the train to various European and Asian cities for work. There is a chapter for each journey, and they're all high- or low-key stressful...
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