The Extinction of Irena Rey - Advance Reading Copy
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, NY, 2024
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
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Condition: Very Good. Trade Paperback with French flaps. Advance Reader's Copy. Binding is tight. Covers show light to moderate shelf wear including rubbing, edgewear, several creases, and lightly bumped/curling corners, with small chips and wear at the spine ends and corner tips. Page edges show light handling wear. Interior appears clean and unmarked. Includes the publisher's black-and-white photographs printed throughout the text. This is an Advance Reading Copy printed from uncorrected proof pages and marked "Not for Sale." Listing photos show the exact copy offered. Novel combining a missing-person mystery with an unusual cast of eight literary translators gathered in an isolated primeval forest in Poland. Professional rivalries, secrets, romantic entanglements, and an increasingly unstable group dynamic emerge as the search progresses. The narrative adds another layer of uncertainty through competing accounts, with one translator telling the story while another challenges her version of events in argumentative footnotes. The Białowieża Forest setting, on the Poland-Belarus border, brings ancient woodland, fungi, and ecological interdependence into a darkly comic story about language, translation, and whom to trust.…
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- Title
- The Extinction of Irena Rey - Advance Reading Copy
- Author
- Croft, Jennifer
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, NY
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1639731709
- ISBN 13
- 9781639731701
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 0.79 pounds
- Dimensions
- 6.1 inches width by 9.25 inches height by 0.75 inches depth
- Seller catalogs
- Crime Fiction & Mysteries, First Edition Books, General Literature, Literature, Modern First Editions, Mysteries, Proofs & ARCs, Suspense
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“Oh my mushrooms, The Extinction of Irena Rey is incredibly strange, savvy, sly and hard to classify. I also couldn't put it down.”
-New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest.
Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Grey Eminence. But within days of their arrival, Irena disappears without a trace.
The translators, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author, begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with work on her masterpiece. They explore this ancient wooded refuge with its intoxicating slime molds and lichens and study her exotic belongings and layered texts for clues. But doing so reveals secrets-and deceptions-of Irena Rey's that they are utterly unprepared for. Forced to face their differences as they grow increasingly paranoid in this fever dream of isolation and obsession, soon the translators are tangled up in a web of rivalries and desire, threatening not only their work but the fate of their beloved author herself.
This hilarious, thought-provoking debut novel is a brilliant examination of art, celebrity, the natural world, and the power of language. It is an unforgettable, unputdownable adventure with a small but global cast of characters shaken by the shocks of love, destruction, and creation in one of Europe's last great wildernesses.
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