Eastbound by: Maylis De Kerangal (Author), Jessica Moore (Translator)
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 127 pages. Eastbound is both an adventure story and a duet of two vibrant inner worlds. 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, Helene, 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 Helene must decipher--for her help to hide him. Clean copy.
