{"product_id":"book-9781838490447","title":"Eastbound","description":"\u003cp\u003eEastbound is both an adventure story and a duet of two vibrant inner worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn mysterious, winding sentences gorgeously translated by Jessica Moore, De Kerangal gives us the story of two unlikely souls entwined in a quest for freedom with a striking sense of tenderness, sharply contrasting the brutality of the surrounding world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRacing 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, Hélène, for whom he feels an uncanny trust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA complicity quickly grows between the two when he manages to urgently ask--through a pantomime and basic Russian that Hélène must decipher--for her help to hide him. They hurry from the filth of his third-class carriage to Hélène's first-class sleeping car. Aliocha now a hunted deserter and Hélène his accomplice with her own inner landscape of recent memories to contend with.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45546391208159,"sku":"9781838490447","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781838490447.jpg?v=1744078607","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/book-9781838490447","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}