{"id":738007,"date":"2023-06-12T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T19:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=738007"},"modified":"2023-06-22T18:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T18:23:16","slug":"elizabeth-gilbert-delays-release-of-novel-set-in-russia-citing-objections-from-ukrainian-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/books-literature\/elizabeth-gilbert-delays-release-of-novel-set-in-russia-citing-objections-from-ukrainian-readers","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Gilbert delays release of novel set in Russia, citing objections from Ukrainian readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Author Elizabeth Gilbert is delaying publication of a novel she had set in Russia, saying she had received an outpouring of &#8220;anger, sorrow, disappointment and pain&#8221; from Ukrainian readers. The head of PEN America, the free expression organization, called the decision &#8220;regrettable.&#8221; Gilbert&#8217;s &#8220;The Snow Forest,&#8221; set in Siberia during the Soviet era and billed as &#8220;a dramatic story of one wild and mysterious girl in a pristine wilderness, and of the mystical connection between humans and the natural world,&#8221; had been scheduled to come out next February. It has received hundreds of one-star reviews on the online reader site Goodreads. Many denounced the novel &#8212; which has yet to come out even in advance editions &#8212; as insensitive and a whitewash of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. &#8220;It is not the time for this book to be published,&#8221; Gilbert said in a video message posted Monday on social media. &#8220;And I do not want<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Author Elizabeth Gilbert is delaying publication of a novel she had set in Russia, saying she had received an outpouring of &#8220;anger, sorrow, disappointment and pain&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}