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The winner of the 2019 Man Booker Prize for short story, Belgian writer Caroline Lamarche has made a name for herself in various genres: short stories, essays, poetry, radio plays, novels, and fairy tales. However, nowhere has her exquisite sacred versatility shone through more than in the dense and incredibly poetic text of her novel The Bear, full of Anais Nin-like allusions and subtexts. It is a poignant and intimate narrative by the author, who is torn between two feelings: the desire for innocence and passion for men. She manages to sublimate her unrestrained love for a priest from a small town on the edge of the forest only through literature. And it is the Word and Love that are at the centre of this "black pearl" of Lamarche's work, her favourite novel, according to the author herself. This is her third book in Ukrainian translation - after The Day of the Dog (1996, Victor Rossel Prize) and The Glades of the Edge of the Forest (2019, Goncourt Prize).