{"product_id":"9781953861504","title":"Eastbound","description":"\u003cb\u003e** SELECTED BY \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eAS 1 OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR **\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e** INCLUDED ON \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER'S \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOKS OF 2023 **\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“At \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, I think it's fair to say we were dazzled by the way the author creates . . . a miniature masterpiece of narrative tension and compression” –  Emily Eakin, \"The Book Review\" podcast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this gripping tale, a Russian conscript and a French woman cross paths on the Trans-Siberian railroad, each fleeing to the east for their own reasons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for fans of Maggie Shipstead's \u003ci\u003eGreat Circle \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Lincoln Highway \u003c\/i\u003eby Amor Towles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEastbound \u003c\/i\u003eis both an adventure story and a duet of two vibrant  inner worlds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn mysterious, winding sentences gorgeously translated by  Jessica Moore, De Kerangal gives us the story of two unlikely souls  entwined in a quest for freedom with a striking sense of tenderness,  sharply contrasting the brutality of the surrounding world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRacing toward Vladivostok, we meet the young Aliocha, packed onto a Trans-Siberian train with other Russian conscripts. Soon after boarding, he decides to desert and over a midnight smoke in a dark corridor of the train, he encounters an older French woman, Hélène, for whom he feels an uncanny trust.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA complicity quickly grows between the two when he manages to urgently ask—through a pantomime and basic Russian that Hélène must decipher—for her help to hide him. They hurry from the filth of his third-class carriage to Hélène’s first-class sleeping car. Aliocha now a hunted deserter and Hélène his accomplice with her own inner landscape of recent memories to contend with.","brand":"Maylis De Kerangal","offers":[{"title":"Steerforth Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-02-07","offer_id":45830802407679,"sku":"9781953861504","price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1a9f35be-baee-4abc-a343-773b7c206e8a.jpg?v=1720025008","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781953861504","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}