Canadian writers Maria Reva and David Szalay have made the 13-book longlist for the 2025 Booker Prize.

The £50,000 (approx. $92,000 Cdn) prize annually recognizes the best original novel written in the English language and published in the U.K.

Reva is nominated for her debut novel Endling , which tells the story of three women and a last-of-his-kind snail whose lives are changed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Yeva, a scientist, is obsessed with breeding rare snails and lives on her own in a mobile lab, funding her work by dating Westerners who have come to Ukraine on romance tours, hoping to find brides untouched by feminism.

Sisters Nastia and Solomiya are also entwined in the marriage industry, pretending to be a prospective bride and her translator to figure out what happened

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