Maria Reva Endling review, recensie en informatie roman van de in Oekraïne geboren, Canadese schrijfster. Op 3 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Virago de in de roman van de Canadese schrijfster Maria Reva die gekozen is op de shortlist van de Booker Prize 2025.
Maria Reva Endling review en recensie
- “Endling shouldn’t be funny, but it is – very. Set in Ukraine just as Putin invades, it features three young women, on two different missions, in one vehicle. Structurally wild and playful, Endling is also heart-rending and angry. It examines colonialism, old and neo, the role of women, identity, power and powerlessness, and the very nature of fiction-writing. Maria Reva also tells a riveting, unique story; the shock is that this is her first novel. It’s a book about the world now, and about three unforgettable women, Yeva, Nastia and Solomiya, travelling together in a mobile lab. The endling, by the way, is a snail.” (Booker Prize 2025 jury)
- “Maria Reva’s startling and ambitious whirlwind of a debut novel, Endling involves soon-to-be-extinct animal species, the worst European terrestrial conflict since World War II and the spectacularly mismatched participants of the international marriage industry.” (Ania Szremski, New York Times)
- “Upon an initial reading, Maria Reva’s remarkable debut novel, Endling might be categorized several different ways: a war novel about modern-day Ukraine; a metafictional tale that examines the ethics of writing about conflict and violence; a satirical send-up of the mail-order bride industry in Ukraine; a biologist’s quest to save the last remaining snail of a species. Amazingly, Endling is all these things.” (S. Kirk Walsh, Washington Post)
- “A thrilling ride … Tender but never mawkish … Reva is breaking down the molecules of fiction to get at a ‘broader, truer truth’ through her combination of drama, self-examination and, notably, humour.” (Financial Times)
Endling
- Auteur: Maria Reva (Canada)
- Soort boek: Canadese roman over Oekraïne
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Virago
- Verschijnt: 3 juli 2025
- Omvang: 352 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: £ 20,00
- Longlist Booker Prize 2025
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de Oekraïne-roman van Maria Reva
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.
De Nederlandse vertaling met als titel Laatsteling verschijnt in mei 2026 bij uitgeverij Cossee.
Maria Reva was born in Ukraine and grew up in Canada. Her story 
collection, Good Citizens Need Not Fear, won the Kobzar Book Award and was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Fiction Prize. Her writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Granta, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She also works as an opera librettist. Her debut novel, Endling, was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025.
