“Eat, Pray, Love” author Elizabeth Gilbert cancels publication of novel set in Russia

“Eat, Pray, Love” writer Elizabeth Gilbert mentioned Monday she won’t launch her new novel, which is about in Russia, as scheduled over “a large outpouring of reactions” from Ukrainians who took concern with its setting. 

“The Snow Forest” was scheduled for publication on Feb. 13, 2024, however Gilbert mentioned she has determined towards shifting ahead with that timeline.

“I am making a course correction and I am eradicating the guide from its publication schedule. It’s not the time for this guide to be revealed,” Gilbert mentioned in a video posted on Instagram. 

“The Snow Forest,” which is about in Siberia within the twentieth century, tells the story of “a bunch of people who decided to take away themselves from society to withstand the Soviet authorities and to attempt to defend nature towards industrialization,” in keeping with Gilbert. 

The writer, whose 2006 bestseller “Eat, Pray, Love” was become a characteristic movie starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem, mentioned her Ukrainian readers expressed “anger, sorrow, disappointment and ache” over the guide’s slated launch due to its Russian setting. 

“I need to say that I’ve heard these messages and skim these messages and I respect them,” Gilbert mentioned. 

Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin Random Home, the guide’s writer, didn’t instantly reply to CBS MoneyWatch’s request for remark. 

Gilbert mentioned she got here to comprehend that now shouldn’t be the time to publish her new novel due to Russia’s ongoing battle in Ukraine, which has now dragged on for a couple of yr, displaced tens of millions of Ukrainians and led main companies to chop enterprise ties with Russia.

“And I don’t need to add any hurt to a bunch of people that have already skilled, and who’re all persevering with to expertise, grievous and excessive hurt,” Gilbert mentioned. 

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