Endling
Maria Reva
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From the publisher
The debut novel by 'one of the leading post-Soviet writers of her generation' (The Nation), about the journey of three women and one extremely endangered snail through contemporary Ukraine.
An unforgettable debut novel about the journey of three women and one extremely endangered snail through contemporary Ukraine
'Brilliant ... funny and smart, full of science, longing and adventure' ANN PATCHETT
'A fierce and funny road-trip novel which is - literally - interrupted by Russia's invasion' GUARDIAN, the 50 hottest books to read right now
'A fantastic novel' PERCIVAL EVERETT
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.