International bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert, who is best known for her debut novel 'Eat, Pray, Love', is all set to publish her new novel. Titled ‘The Snow Forest’, Gilbert's upcoming novel is scheduled to be published by Bloomsbury in February 2024. The news was announced by Gilbert on social media recently.
Sharing more details about ‘The Snow Forest’, Gilbert said on social media, "I have written a new novel called ‘The Snow Forest’... During the first year of Covid-19, I lived all by myself in isolation, far away from everyone and I found that I loved it. And I started to crave even deeper silence. I think anyone who is a creative or spiritual person knows that longing-- to be as far away from what we call culture and the world; which got me thinking about how far away could you go? What is the farthest away that you could go from what we call humanity? And that got me thinking about an article that I had read that year-- about a true story of this extraordinary family who managed to hide in the Siberian wilderness for half-a-century without any human contact. That was the inspiration for this novel, ‘The Snow Forest’. This will take you to the deepest realm of the Siberia and into the heart and mind of an extraordinary girl born into that world, a girl of great spiritual and creative talent, raised far, far away from what we call normal."
The article Gilbert referred to is about 'the true story of the family of religious hermits discovered in Siberia in 1978 who had escaped early 20th century Russia for a life in one of the most inhospitable and uninhabited places on earth,' reads a report by PTI.
The news was also confirmed by publisher Bloomsbury in a tweet.
Some of Elizabeth Gilbert's other books include: 'Big Magic', 'City of Girls', among others.
