Elizabeth Gilbert's “The Snow Forest” is set in Siberia during the Soviet era.
Author Elizabeth Gilbert is delaying publication of a novel she had set in Russia, saying she had received an outpouring of “anger, sorrow, disappointment and pain” from Ukrainian readers. The head of PEN America, the free expression organization, called the decision “regrettable.”
It has received hundreds of one-star reviews on the online reader site Goodreads. Many denounced the novel — which has yet to come out even in advance editions — as insensitive and a whitewash of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Elizabeth Gilbert revealed on Instagram that she has found love with Simon MacArthur who was good friends with her late partner Rayya Elias. Watch to find out more.
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