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Endling

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Endling

Auteur(s): Maria Reva
Narrateur(s): Max Meyers, Saskia Maarleveld, Maria Reva
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WINNER OF THE 2025 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE • WINNER OF THE 2026 GORDON BURN PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE 2025 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE Named A Best Book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail • The New Yorker • CBC • Indigo • Publishers Weekly • The Irish Times • The Observer • The Guardian • The Boston Globe

A stunning debut novel by a writer who is “bang-on brilliant” (Miriam Toews), about a biologist in Ukraine battling to save the country’s snail species from the brink of extinction on the eve of the Russian invasion. A darkly comic novel exploring survival, love, and the impact of war.

“Funny and smart. This is essential reading.” —Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Tom Lake

“This novel turns corners and tables. I love works that are smarter than I am, and this is one.” —Percival Everett, author of National Book Award-winner James

“Pulses with a powerful sense of urgency and relevance to our times.” —Lara Prescott, author of The Secrets We Kept


Ukraine, 2022. Yeva is a loner and a maverick scientist who lives out of her mobile lab. She scours the country’s forests and valleys, trying and failing to breed rare snails, while her relatives urge her to settle down and finally 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 and modernity.
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.
Together they embark on the journey of a lifetime across hundreds of miles: three angry women, a truckful of kidnapped bachelors, and Lefty, a last-of-his-kind snail with one final shot at perpetuating his species.
But their plans come to a screeching halt when Russia invades. In a stunningly ambitious and achingly raw metafictional spiral, Endling brilliantly balances horror and comedy, drawing on Reva's own experiences as a Ukrainian expat tracking her family's delicate dance of survival behind enemy lines. As fiction and reality collide on the page, Reva probes the hard truths of war: What stories must we tell ourselves to survive? To carry on with the routines of life under military occupation? And for those of us watching from overseas: Can our sense of normalcy and security ever be restored, or have they always been a fragile illusion?
Endling is a tour de force from an author who weaves a story of love, loss, humor, and hope that only she can tell.
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Editorial Review

A snail tail
What if one of the most diverse animal groups on the planet were to lose yet another of its species? Set in Ukraine in 2022, this is the angle from which Maria Reva’s debut novel explores the environmental degradation inflicted by the region’s ongoing war. Endling unfolds through the lens of a snail conservationist named Yeva who funds her research by dating Western men in the market for docile brides. While working a guided matchmaking tour, Yeva crosses paths with a pair of sisters searching for their mother who disappeared after years of outspoken activism against the marriage industry. Not only do Saskia Maarleveld and Max Meyers enrich this listen with stellar performances, but Reva herself narrates a few chapters—alternating between Ukrainian, Russian, and anglicized pronunciations for place names with a precision that further fleshes out this intricate modern landscape. —Haley H., Audible Editor

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Loved everything about the book, except I’m not sure how I feel about the author’s commentary. Honestly, it felt so ill fitting when it happened first but by the end of the book, I appreciated it more. Regardless, that was minimal interruption (if I dare call it that) to what was a remarkable story, remarkably told. I also genuinely appreciated the plight of Ukrainians everywhere.

Brilliant, unique and timely

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Beginning to end, this book was incredible. I loved the self-insertions and every single character was so life-like. It started out sort of fun and silly, but became real and heartbreaking very quickly.
It explores humanity and life in such a deep, unique way.
6 stars.

This Book is Art

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Beautifully written and narrated, Endling will have you crying, laughing and crying again. A story about young women and their different life paths, who come together, broken families, a man in search of his true love and true home, snails and their mating habits… Enjoyed every minute of this book!

Heartbreaking and hilarious

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