German publisher halts Ukraine wartime romance novel after backlash

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2026-10-17

Stuttgart (dpa) - A German publishing house has halted the publication of a fictional love story between a Ukrainian woman and a Russian soldier after criticism that the novel romanticizes the war, its head Matthias Slunitschek told dpa. Slunitschek said on Friday that the publisher had decided, at the author's request and after a flood of critical comments, not to publish the novel "Who I Am When You See Me." In a message to the Molino publishin......

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