Endling

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Beschreibung

* LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 *<br>* WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2026 *<br>* SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE *<br>* WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE *<br>* WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD *<br>* A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES, BBC, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY *<br>An unforgettable debut novel about the journey of three women and one extremely endangered snail through contemporary Ukraine<br> <br> 'A fierce and funny road-trip novel' GUARDIAN, the 50 hottest books to read right now<br> 'Inventive and playful' SUNDAY TIMES<br>'A stunning debut' OBSERVER<br>'I was gripped . . . Brilliant' DAILY MAIL<br>'A thrilling ride' FINANCIAL TIMES<br>'A bold, brilliant, original, funny and devastating novel' KATE MCLOUGHLIN, TLS<br> 'Brilliant and heart-stopping' LOS ANGELES TIMES<br> 'Startling and ambitious' NEW YORK TIMES<br> 'Animated by dark humor and cool fury' NEW YORKER<br> 'Dexterous and formally inventive' MARCEL THEROUX, GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY 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.<br><br> 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.<br><br> 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.* LONG

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780349012742

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

196 x 127 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Little, Brown Book Group