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Bloomsbury presents The Extinction of Irena Ray by Jennifer Croft, read by Lanessa Tremblett.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY WALL STREET JOURNAL, ELLE, TOWN & COUNTRY, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, CRIMEREADS, DOCUMENT JOURNAL, AND WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS * NAMED A MUST READ BY NPR, PEOPLE, VANITY FAIR, NYLON, ALTA JOURNAL, AND DEBUTIFUL

International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women’s Prize finalist Jennifer Croft’s madly brilliant mystery novel of transformation and translation in Europe’s last great wilderness.

“Savvy, sly, and hard to classify. A bacchanal.” —New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“Fiercely inventive.” —Washington Post
Knives Out on mushrooms.” —Elle
“Could only be written by master of language, a tamer of different tongues. It is brilliant, fun, and absolutely alive.” —Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Eight translators gather in the primeval forest home of the world-renowned Irena Rey. They are there to translate her magnum opus together, but within days of their arrival, Irena disappears.

The translators embark on a frantic search, delving into ancient woods filled with strange flora, fauna, and fungi and examining her enigmatic texts and belongings for clues. But doing so reveals secrets they are utterly unprepared for, and they quickly find themselves tangled up in a web of rivalries and desires that threaten not only their work, but the fate of their beloved author herself.©2024 Jennifer Croft (P)2024 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Witty
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