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EASTBOUND by Maylis De Kerangal, translated by Jessica Moore
This slim and powerful novel is as poetic as it is daring: two travelers on a Siberian train headed east - one, a Russian conscript driven to flee his fate as a soldier, the other a middle-aged French woman from love, her past, something else? The two do not speak the same language yet communicate and help each other in the short time they are together. Their encounters and the tense adventure as the train moves steadily east is exceptional and beautiful.
