Eastbound

Paperback, 127 pages

English language

Published Nov. 17, 2023 by Steerforth Press, Archipelago Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-953861-50-4

In this swirling, gripping tale, a young Russian conscript and a French woman come together in a crowded compartment of the Trans-Siberian railroad, each of them fleeing to the east for their own reasons.

1 edition

Brian Plunkett reviewed Eastbound by Maylis De Kerangal

4 stars

(Read in 2023) A fast and tense read. Poetic and sometimes dreamlike. I enjoyed the shifts between the characters' points of view and also the Siberian setting, especially the contrast between the claustrophobic train and the expanse through which they are passing.

Otts reviewed Eastbound by Maylis De Kerangal

Small pleasures

4 stars

I read the Archipelago edition which was very pleasing to hold and touch. Its physicality really influenced my good opinion. A simple story contained inside a small book, set on the cramped spaces of a train on the Trans-Siberian railway.