04439cam a2200721 4500 1597734360 TxAuBib 20240914120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781639731718 1639731717 B0CKN13Z2D Amazon 982e107f-3bc0-44f5-95a3-226b2555ca97 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10197839 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Croft, Jennifer. The Extinction of Irena Rey [Libby eBook]. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 16MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. National Book Award. books about writing. Guggenheim Fellow. Eastern Europe. International. Saroyan Prize. translation. suspenseful. wilderness. translator. literature. Bialowieza. mushrooms. Thriller. Mycelium. romance. Fiction. Belarus. mystery. Poland. forest. booker. amadou. Fungi. funny. Nobel. novel. Jenny. Irina. leshy. Ray. HTML:National Bestseller Named a must read by NPR, People, Vanity Fair, Electric Literature, Nylon, Alta Journal, CrimeReads and Debutiful Named a most anticipated book by Elle, The Millions, Bustle, Lit Hub, Dandelion Chandelier, Zibby Mag, Bookpage, and The Rumpus "Oh my mushrooms, The Extinction of Irena Rey is incredibly strange, savvy, sly and hard to classify. I also couldn't put it down." -The New York Times, 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, Gray 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. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-09-13 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=982e107f-3bc0-44f5-95a3-226b2555ca97&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=982e107f-3bc0-44f5-95a3-226b2555ca97&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=982e107f-3bc0-44f5-95a3-226b2555ca97&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) BTCLS