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Author’s decision to remove The Snow Forest from publication because of Russia-Ukraine war sparks intense debate
Mixed reactions have met the decision by the US novelist Elizabeth Gilbert to withdraw her forthcoming novel The Snow Forest from publication after receiving criticism for its Russian setting in various forums.
The author best known for the bestselling 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love has asked her publishers at Penguin Random House to withdraw her new book. In statement, Gilbert said that “an enormous, massive outpouring of reactions and responses from my Ukrainian readers, expressing anger, sorrow, disappointment and pain” about her choice of location had informed her decision to remove it from publication scheduled for next year.
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