Eastbound
Translated from French by Jessica Moore.
- £11.99
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- Paperback published on 29/09/2022
- Page count: 120 pages
- ISBN: 9781838490447
Quick take
In this swirling, gripping tale, a young Russian conscript and a French woman come together in a crowded compartment of the Trans-Siberian railroad, each of them fleeing to the east for their own reasons.
Synopsis
On the Trans-Siberian Railway a desperate Russian conscript hopes a chance encounter with an older French woman will offer him a line of flight.; Published in France one year after Kerangal’s award-winning novel Birth of a Bridge, Eastbound breathes new life into the Russian literary archetype of the rebel soldier and revives the reality of disempowerment of the Soldiers’ Mothers of Saint Petersburg protest. Inspired by her observations on the ground as she travelled on the Trans-Siberian from Novossibirsk to Vladivostok.
About the author
Maylis de Kerangal spent her childhood in Le Havre, France, and now lives in Paris. Her novel Naissance d’un pont won the Prix Franz Hessel and Prix Médicis in 2010, and was published in English as Birth of a Bridge. In 2014, her fifth novel Réparer les vivants was published to wide acclaim in France, winning the Grand Prix RTL-Lire award and the student choice novel of the year from France Culture and Télérama. In the UK, Mend the Living was longlisted for the Booker International Prize in 2016, and won the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017 – only the second novel and the first work in translation ever to do so.
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