Neuware - LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-its-kind snail. This darkly comic novel explores survival, love, and hope in times of encroaching darkness. 'Startling and ambitious' New York Times "Virtuosic.' NPR, Fresh Air "Brilliant and heart-stopping.' Los Angeles Times "Animated by dark humor and cool fury.' The New Yorker "Remarkable." The Washington Post 'This novel turns corners and tables. I love works that are smarter than I am, and this is one." Percival Everett, author of Pulitzer Prize winner JamesUkraine, 2022. Yeva is a loner and a maverick scientist who lives out of her mobile lab.She scours the country s forests and valleys, trying and failing to breed rare snails, while her relatives urge her to settle down and finally 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 and modernity.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.Together they embark across hundreds of miles: three angry women, a truckful of kidnapped bachelors, and Lefty, a last-of-his-kind snail with one final shot at perpetuating his species. But their plans come to a screeching halt when Russia invades. In a stunningly ambitious and achingly raw metafictional spiral, Endling brilliantly balances horror and comedy, drawing on Reva s own experiences as a Ukrainian expat tracking her family s delicate dance of survival behind enemy lines. As fiction and reality collide on the page, Reva probes the hard truths of war: What stories must we tell ourselves to survive To carry on with the routines of life under military occupation And for those of us watching from over-seas: Can our sense of normalcy and security ever be restored, or have they always been a fragile illusion Endling is a tour de force from an author who weaves a story of love, loss, humor, and devastation that only she can tell.

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Titel: Endling
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Jun 2025
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0385545312
ISBN-13: 9780385545310
Einband: Buch
Zustand: Neu
Abmessungen: Breite: 239 mm, H�he: 155 mm, Tiefe: 37 mm
Gewicht: 652 Gramm

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In the absurdist literary tradition of George Saunders comes the debut novel of a “one of the leading post-Soviet writers of her generation” (The Atlantic) and “a new talent to watch” (Margaret Atwood) which chronicles the travails of three Ukrainian women and one extremely endangered snail through the travails of capitalism, foreign invasion, romance, and survival.

Ukraine, 2022. Nastia and her sister, Solimaya, are entangled in the booming bridal industry, getting paid to entertain Western men who’ve come to Ukraine on “Romance Tours” to find their dream woman. Yeva is a loner and a maverick scientist who’s tried, and failed, to breed specimens from the region’s dwindling snail population in her mobile lab.

Nastia’s obsession with finding her absent mother—a flamboyant protestor who disappeared after years of public opposition to the romance tours—leads her to embark on the journey of a lifetime across hundreds of miles: three angry women, a truckful of kidnapped bachelors, and Lefty, a rare snail with one last shot at perpetuating his species.

This journey, and these dreams, come to a screeching halt as Russia invades. In a stunningly ambitious and achingly raw metafictional spiral, Endling brilliantly balances the comedic stakes set in motion by the plot while drawing on Reva’s personal experiences as a Ukrainian expat, forced to witness the hostilities from afar while tracking her family’s delicate dance of survival behind enemy lines. As fiction and real life combine on the page, Reva probes the hard truths of war: What is it like to leave behind one’s home and possessions? Conversely, what is it like to stay and continue with the mundanities of life and work under military occupation? For those of us witnessing from overseas: how does our sense of reality change? Can normalcy and security be restored, or have they always been an illusion?

Endling is a tour de force from an author on the cutting edge of fiction, telling a story of love, loss, humor, and devastation that only she could tell.

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MARIA REVA was born in Ukraine and grew up in Canada. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center at the University of Texas. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney's, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere, and has won a National Magazine Award. She also works as an opera librettist.

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