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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK 2023; A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023; A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022; A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022; On the Trans-Siberian Railway a desperate Russian conscript hopes a chance encounter with an older French woman will offer him a line of flight.; Published in France one year after Kerangal’s award-winning novel Birth of a Bridge, Eastbound breathes new life into the Russian literary archetype of the rebel soldier and revives the reality of disempowerment of the Soldiers’ Mothers of Saint Petersburg protest. Inspired by her observations on the ground as she travelled on the Trans-Siberian from Novossibirsk to Vladivostok.

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'The fever burning through this story, its suspense 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

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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.

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