Staff Review of: The Extinction of Irena Rey

The Extinction of Irena Rey
by Jennifer Croft

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A psychedelic puzzle of a novel that will leave you equally impressed and disturbed.

A group of translators are invited by their author to the Polish forest to translate her magnum opus. Only, when she vanished without a trace, a mystery begins to unfold.

For fans of an unreliable, this novel will excite and intrigue, as it is translated into English by a translator who is the rival of the original author. Just one of the many layers and inventive stylistic flairs Jennifer Croft has on offer. As more twists and reveals are introduced, Croft keeps you consistently engaged with ponderings on literary culture, comments on climate change, and facts about mushrooms. And yet all these threads, as obscure as they might seem, are in fact connected.

A psychedelic puzzle of a novel that will leave you equally impressed and disturbed.