Unwilling mail order brides, ignorant bachelors and a rare snail king - the Russians' war of aggression on Ukraine in 2022 turns these characters and their author into a bizarre community of fate Ukraine, 2022. She finances her increasingly unsuccessful work with her beauty. As the "bride" of a marriage agency, she entertains Western men in search of a docile woman for life. This is how she meets the sisters Nastia and Sol, who want to continue the activist work of their missing mother. Their plan: kidnap marriage tourists in Yeva's van and abandon them in the forest in an attention-grabbing way. Soon it starts: three angry women, thirteen unsuspecting bachelors and Lefty, a left-twisted snail, the last specimen of its kind - but then the Russians invade the country ... And the novel takes an unexpected turn. Or two. Because when reality invades fiction, it becomes wild and humorous. ¿A Kingdom for a Snail¿ is a masterful debut about love and loss, about destruction in many facets and the saving power of humour. Winner of the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and nominated for the 2025 Booker Prize