Eastbound
(Book)

Originally published as Tangente vers l'est by Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2012.

"Racing 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, H�el�ene, for whom he feels an uncanny trust. A complicity quickly grows between the two when he manages to urgently ask-through a pantomime and basic Russian that H�el�ene must decipher-for her help to hide him. They hurry from the filth of his third-class carriage to H�el�ene's first-class sleeping car. Aliocha now a hunted deserter and H�el�ene his accomplice with her own inner landscape of recent memories to contend with."--,FantasticFiction.com.