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The Loop Line
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Sreeram M
Published: Oct 19 2026
Pages: 362
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Ilya has made this trip twice a year for eleven years - the same compartment, the same ticket folded back without a glance, the same unfinished novel in his bag. Somewhere at the other end of the line is a man he stopped trying to explain a long time ago.
The Loop Line follows ten intertwined lives that share the same stretch of track: a woman losing a sentence she can never quite finish, a recruit who wakes into someone else's coat carrying only his father's watch, a girl losing seconds to a day that hasn't happened yet, a daughter returning to a house that's smaller than she remembered, a driver logging his last shift before the route goes automatic - and others whose smallest choices ripple through years they'll never see.
Some journeys end. Some just fold back on themselves, again and again, until someone - the reader included - stops waiting for the arrival and starts paying attention to the ride.
A debut novel in ten parts about repetition, memory, and the debts we carry too far down the line to ever fully pay off.
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