She-Bear
Short stories by Evgenia Nekrasova
★ WINNER OF THE 2026 O. HENRY PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION
Short stories by Evgenia Nekrasova
ORIGINAL TITLE: Золотинка
ORIGINAL PUBLISHER: Elena Shubina, 2023
288 PAGES
ORIGINAL PUBLISHER: Elena Shubina, 2023
288 PAGES
FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATION AVAILABLE
★ WINNER OF THE 2026 O. HENRY PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION
“With every outing, she strays further and further away from the den but always returns. One day, for the first time in months, she sees a person in the distance. For a moment, she stops singing and gathering berries into a bottle, but then resumes her foraging and vocalizing and having filled up the bottle, comes back to the den.”