Eat, Pray, Love author withdraws new Russia-set novel from publication | Books
Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert is pulling her new novel from publication after Ukrainian readers expressed “anger, sorrow, disappointment and pain” about her decision to set a book in Russia.Gilbert’s The Snow Forest is a historical novel set in Siberia, and follows a family of religious Russian fundamentalists who have lived isolated and undetected for 44 years since retreating from the world in the 1930s.When they are discovered in 1980 by a team of Soviet geologists, a scholar and linguist is sent to the…