Eastbound

- Reviews -

' Richly atmospheric and full of suspense, Eastbound combines a vibrant account of one of the most magical train journeys in the world, with a narrative of a double escape, depicting an unlikely alliance of a French woman trying to leave her lover by travelling in the wrong direction, and a heartbreakingly young Russian draft dodger. It takes a great writer to manage all that so convincingly in one hundred and twenty thrilling pages. " - Vesna Goldsworthy, author of Iron Curtain; ' The fever burning through this story, and its lyrical escapes don' t curb its sensuality, and precision. [Kerangal' s] language has an incredible driving force. It is both like a stone made up of many crystals, mixing registers with fluidity, and juxtaposing the poetic and the trivial. The whole thing has a unique rhythm, a sense of breathless speed: the sort of graceful rockslide that only she can pull off. In flux between interior and exterior, this is the perfect voyage. ' - Le Monde des Livres; ' A flight that is as intoxicating as it is nerve-wracking, in which we grasp the doubts, the urgency and the secret bond between the two fugitives at lightning speed. We see how faces and landscapes dissolve in the non-place of the train, at once fixed and in perpetual motion. ' - ELLE; ' With seismographic sensitivity, she enters the minds of her characters to capture their slightest emotional vibrations [. . . ] In her pages we find both coarseness and flights of the soul, all evoked in tight, surgical prose which hides nothing and which holds reality strangely, at arm' s length. ' - La Croix; ' A fleeting, urgent tete-a-tete which explores the narrative possibilities of the machine in movement. ' - Magazine Litteraire; ' Full of richness and life, the writing of the author of Birth of a Bridge continues to dilate, to seethe, propelling words through sentences that are organic and frantic like blood vessels. In a ballet of sidesteps, a man and a woman attempt to bring their aloneness together. Through an ardent game of attraction and evasion, Maylis de Kerangal records the seismic waves of every encounter, human or geographical. ' - Telerama

- Author Bio -

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 Medicis in 2010, and was published in English as Birth of a Bridge. In 2014, her fifth novel Reparer 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 Telerama. 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. It was also one of the Wall Street Journal' s Ten Best Fiction Works of 2016. Un chemin de tables, translated as The Cook, was published in the UK and the US in 2019 and reviewed in the New York Times. Her 2018 novel Un monde a portee de main, published in English as Painting Time, was published in 2021 and was listed as one of the Guardian' s most anticipated books of the year. Her short story collection Canoes is to be published in the UK by MacLehose Press.

- Full Details -

Status:	No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13:	9781838490447
Published:	29 Sep 2022
Published In:	United Kingdom
Imprint:	Les Fugitives
Publisher:	Les Fugitives
Format:	Paperback
Height:	180mm
Width:	120mm
Pages:	120

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