Eastbound. [online electronic book]
Eastbound. [online electronic book]
By
:
Kerangal, Maylis de.
Publication Date
:
2023
Subject Term
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Electronic books.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Soldiers -- Fiction.
Women -- Fiction.
Genre
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Psychological fiction.
Additional Contributors
:
Moore, Jessica, 1978-
Summary
:
Eastbound is both an adventure story and a duet of two vibrant inner worlds. In 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. Racing 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, HÔelßene, for whom he feels an uncanny trust. A complicity quickly grows between the two when he manages to urgently ask—through a pantomime and basic Russian that HÔelßene must decipher—for her help to hide him. They hurry from the filth of his third-class carriage to HÔelßene’s first-class sleeping car. Aliocha now a hunted deserter and HÔelßene his accomplice with her own inner landscape of recent memories to contend with.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781953861511
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