{"product_id":"eastbound-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 ** \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e** INCLUDED ON \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER'S \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOKS OF 2023 ** \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerfect for fans of Maggie Shipstead's \u003ci\u003eGreat Circle \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Lincoln Highway \u003c\/i\u003eby Amor Towles \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEastbound \u003c\/i\u003eis both an adventure story and a duet of two vibrant inner worlds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaylis de Kerangal\u003c\/b\u003e is the award winning and critically acclaimed author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, which was one of the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e's Ten Best Fiction Works of 2016 and won awards including the Wellcome Book Prize, the Grand Prix RTL-Lire and the Student Choice Novel of the Year from France Culture and Télérama; \u003ci\u003eNaissance d'un pont\u003c\/i\u003e (published in English as \u003ci\u003eBirth of a Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e), which won of the Prix Franz Hessel and Prix Médicis; and \u003ci\u003eUn chemin de tables\u003c\/i\u003e, whose English translation, \u003ci\u003eThe Cook\u003c\/i\u003e, was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice. \u003ci\u003eMend the Living \u003c\/i\u003ewas Longlisted for the Booker International Prize 2016. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Moore\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, translator, author, and singer-songwriter. A former Lannan writer-in-residence and winner of a PEN America Translation Award for her translation of \u003ci\u003eTurkana Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, by Jean-François Beauchemin, her first collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eEverything, now, \u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2012. She lives in Toronto.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Archipelago Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50570769334546,"sku":"9781953861504","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e13dcd4a-cdbc-4319-b099-c14fe7a5f986.jpg?v=1731961330","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/eastbound-9781953861504","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}