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Malisova, Elena & Sylvanova, Katerina - Pioneer SummerPioneer Summer Author: Elena Malisova & Katerina Sylvanova Genre: YOung Adult Romance Pages: 448 Publisher: Abrams Press Release Date: June 3, 2025 Format: Hardcover Synopsis: This star crossed gay romance is a #1 bestselling TikTok sensation that made international news and catalyzed one of Russias largest ever crackdowns on LGBTQ representation The banned gay romance that took Russia by storm . . . In the waning days of the Soviet Union, two teenage
Pioneer Summer
Author: Elena Malisova & Katerina Sylvanova
Genre: YOung Adult Romance
Pages: 448
Publisher: Abrams Press
Release Date: June 3, 2025
Format: Hardcover
Synopsis:
This star-crossed gay romance is a #1 bestselling TikTok sensation that made international news and catalyzed one of Russia’s largest-ever crackdowns on LGBTQ representation
The banned gay romance that took Russia by storm . . .
In the waning days of the Soviet Union, two teenage boys find each other at Pioneer Camp, a patriotic summer program similar to the Boy Scouts. Yury Konev, 16, anticipates the weeks ahead of him with boredom and dread, but things change when he meets 19-year-old counselor Volodya. The two boys are drawn to each other, and though both fear the consequences of their illegal attraction, its gravity pulls them together.
Now, 20 years later, Yury returns to the abandoned camp to reminisce on the relationship that changed his life forever—and discovers that not all history is destined to remain in the past.
Cowritten by a Ukrainian–Russian duo and originally published by an independent publisher, Popcorn Books, Pioneer Summer became a TikTok sensation and runaway #1 bestseller in Russia. Catalyzed by this success, Russian Parliament officials and anti-LGBT activists began a campaign to ban the novel and others like it, an effort which became law just two months after the second book in the series was published. The authors were forced to flee the country, and Popcorn Books ceased publication.
But they—and we—will not be so easily cowed. Beginning in the summer of 2025, Pioneer Summer will become available for the first time in English, with the other two novels to follow.
LGBT Themes:
- Achillean
Relevant Tags:
Queer, Romance, LGBT, Fiction, Russia, Young Adult, Gay, Achillean, Contemporary, Historical Fiction
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