| International Standard Book Number |
9781639731701 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1639731709 (hardcover)
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6 23/eng/20240226
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| Personal Name |
Croft, Jennifer (Translator), author.
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| Title Statement |
The extinction of Irena Rey : a novel / Jennifer Croft.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Ã2024
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
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| Physical Description |
309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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| Content Type |
still image sti rdacontent
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Summary, Etc. |
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.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Missing persons Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Missing persons Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Authors Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Personnes disparues Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
âEcrivains Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Translators Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Translators Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Translating and interpreting Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Poland Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Poland Fiction. sears
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Romans. rvmgf
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