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"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"--

Main Author:	Kerangal, Maylis de (Author)
Other Authors:	Moore, Jessica (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2023.
Subjects:	Military deserters > Fiction. Railroad travel > Fiction.

Summary:	"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"--
Physical Description:	127 pages
ISBN:	9781953861504 1953861504
Author Notes:	Maylis de Kerangal is the award winning and critically acclaimed author of several books, including The Heart , which was one of the Wall Street Journal 's Ten Best Fiction Works of 2016 and won awards including the Wellcome Book Prize, the Grand Prix RTL-Lire and the Student Choice Novel of the Year from France Culture and Télérama; Naissance d'un pont (published in English as Birth of a Bridge ), which won of the Prix Franz Hessel and Prix Médicis; and Un chemin de tables , whose English translation, The Cook , was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Mend the Living was Longlisted for the Booker International Prize 2016. Jessica Moore is a poet, translator, author, and singer-songwriter. A former Lannan writer-in-residence and winner of a PEN America Translation Award for her translation of Turkana Boy , by Jean-François Beauchemin, her first collection of poems, Everything, now, was published in 2012. She lives in Toronto.

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