Maria Reva

Broschiertes Buch

Endling

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025

Beschreibung

An unforgettable debut novel about the journey of three women and one extremely endangered snail through contemporary Ukraine Ukraine, 2022. Yeva is a maverick scientist who scours the country's forests and valleys, trying and failing to breed rare snails while her relatives urge her to settle down and start a family of her own. What they don't know: Yeva already dates plenty of men-not for love, but to fund her work-entertaining Westerners who come to Ukraine on guided romance tours believing they'll find docile brides untainted by feminism. Nastia and her sister, Solomiya, are also entangled in the booming marriage industry, posing as a hopeful bride and her translator while secretly searching for their missing mother, who vanished after years of fierce activism against the romance tours. So begins a journey of a lifetime across a country on the brink of war: three angry women, a truckful of kidnapped bachelors, and Lefty, a last-of-his-kind snail with one final shot at perpetuating his species. 'One of the leading post-Soviet writers of her generation' The Nation

Autor

Maria Reva was born in Ukraine and grew up in Canada. Her story collection, Good Citizens Need Not Fear, won the Kobzar Book Award and was a finalist for the Writers' Trust of Canada's Fiction Prize. Her writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Granta, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She also works as an opera librettist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 150mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780349012728
• ISBN-10: 0349012725
• Artikelnr.: 60587296