"Bizarre and brilliant . above all tremendous fun . The Extinction of Irena Rey teems with rabbit-hole delights at every turn right up to the delicious final twist." -- Wall Street Journal "Absolutely bizarre in the best way, it''s a fever dream of deception and desire." -- People Magazine "Translator Jennifer Croft sends up her vocation in this waggish literary mystery." -- Vanity Fair "Wild . joyous." -- Lauren Groff, Bustle "Croft has constructed a canny exploration of how even English, despite its unique dominance, might be influenced by its brushes with the mysterious process that is translation.
" -- The Atlantic "Oh my mushrooms, The Extinction of Irena Rey is incredibly strange, savvy, sly and hard to classify. I also couldn''t put it down . mad with plot and language and gorgeous prose, and the result is a bacchanal." -- New York Times Book Review (Editors'' Choice) " The Extinction of Irena Rey surprised me at every turn, moving between profound observations about nature, art, and communication . and surreal and baffling happenings that push the characters into a kind of fever-dream reality. Croft has certainly added ''novelist'' to the list of writing-related skills she excels at, and what a joy that is to witness." -- NPR.org "Croft subverts expectations with a blackly comic, fiercely inventive drama that explores the cult of celebrity and the art of translation (an art this critically acclaimed, award-winning translator has mastered).
" -- Washington Post "As bewildering and beckoning as its cover, Jennifer Croft''s locked-room mystery is something like Agatha Christie or Knives Out on mushrooms-ones not unlike those in the book itself." -- Elle "Wrought in lively prose and complemented by a dazzling suite of meta-textual hijinks set to the beat of a mystery novel, The Extinction of Irena Rey is an empathetic and comic investigation of the role of the translator within the literary project." -- The Rumpus "Croft spins such a seductive tale, it''s impossible not to get sucked in." -- Bustle "[Aey surprised me at every turn, moving between profound observations about nature, art, and communication . and surreal and baffling happenings that push the characters into a kind of fever-dream reality. Croft has certainly added ''novelist'' to the list of writing-related skills she excels at, and what a joy that is to witness." -- NPR.org "Croft subverts expectations with a blackly comic, fiercely inventive drama that explores the cult of celebrity and the art of translation (an art this critically acclaimed, award-winning translator has mastered).
" -- Washington Post "As bewildering and beckoning as its cover, Jennifer Croft''s locked-room mystery is something like Agatha Christie or Knives Out on mushrooms-ones not unlike those in the book itself." -- Elle "Wrought in lively prose and complemented by a dazzling suite of meta-textual hijinks set to the beat of a mystery novel, The Extinction of Irena Rey is an empathetic and comic investigation of the role of the translator within the literary project." -- The Rumpus "Croft spins such a seductive tale, it''s impossible not to get sucked in." -- Bustle "[Ahe role of the translator within the literary project." -- The Rumpus "Croft spins such a seductive tale, it''s impossible not to get sucked in." -- Bustle "[Aey surprised me at every turn, moving between profound observations about nature, art, and communication . and surreal and baffling happenings that push the characters into a kind of fever-dream reality. Croft has certainly added ''novelist'' to the list of writing-related skills she excels at, and what a joy that is to witness.
" -- NPR.org "Croft subverts expectations with a blackly comic, fiercely inventive drama that explores the cult of celebrity and the art of translation (an art this critically acclaimed, award-winning translator has mastered)." -- Washington Post "As bewildering and beckoning as its cover, Jennifer Croft''s locked-room mystery is something like Agatha Christie or Knives Out on mushrooms-ones not unlike those in the book itself." -- Elle "Wrought in lively prose and complemented by a dazzling suite of meta-textual hijinks set to the beat of a mystery novel, The Extinction of Irena Rey is an empathetic and comic investigation of the role of the translator within the literary project." -- The Rumpus "Croft spins such a seductive tale, it''s impossible not to get sucked in." -- Bustle "[Aey surprised me at every turn, moving between profound observations about nature, art, and communication . and surreal and baffling happenings that push the characters into a kind of fever-dream reality. Croft has certainly added ''novelist'' to the list of writing-related skills she excels at, and what a joy that is to witness.
" -- NPR.org "Croft subverts expectations with a blackly comic, fiercely inventive drama that explores the cult of celebrity and the art of translation (an art this critically acclaimed, award-winning translator has mastered)." -- Washington Post "As bewildering and beckoning as its cover, Jennifer Croft''s locked-room mystery is something like Agatha Christie or Knives Out on mushrooms-ones not unlike those in the book itself." -- Elle "Wrought in lively prose and complemented by a dazzling suite of meta-textual hijinks set to the beat of a mystery novel, The Extinction of Irena Rey is an empathetic and comic investigation of the role of the translator within the literary project." -- The Rumpus "Croft spins such a seductive tale, it''s impossible not to get sucked in." -- Bustle "[Ahe role of the translator within the literary project." -- The Rumpus "Croft spins such a seductive tale, it''s impossible not to get sucked in." -- Bustle "[Ahe role of the translator within the literary project.
" -- The Rumpus "Croft spins such a seductive tale, it''s impossible not to get sucked in." -- Bustle "[Aey surprised me at every turn, moving between profound observations about nature, art, and communication . and surreal and baffling happenings that push the characters into a kind of fever-dream reality. Croft has certainly added ''novelist'' to the list of writing-related skills she excels at, and what a joy that is to witness." -- NPR.org "Croft subverts expectations with a blackly comic, fiercely inventive drama that explores the cult of celebrity and the art of translation (an art this critically acclaimed, award-winning translator has mastered)." -- Washington Post "As bewildering and beckoning as its cover, Jennifer Croft''s locked-room mystery is something like Agatha Christie or Knives Out on mushrooms-ones not unlike those in the book itself." -- Elle "Wrought in lively prose and complemented by a dazzling suite of meta-textual hijinks set to the beat of a mystery novel, The Extinction of Irena Rey is an empathetic and comic investigation of the role of the translator within the literary project.
" -- The Rumpus "Croft spins such a seductive tale, it''s impossible not to get sucked in." -- Bustle "[Ahe role of the translator within the literary project." -- The Rumpus "Croft spins such a seductive tale, it''s impossible not to get sucked in." -- Bustle "[A prose and complemented by a dazzling suite of meta-textual hijinks set to the beat of a mystery novel, The Extinction of Irena Rey is an empathetic and comic investigation of the role of the translator within the literary project." -- The Rumpus "Croft spins such a seductive tale, it''s impossible not to get sucked in." -- Bustle "[Ahe role of the translator within the literary project." -- The Rumpus "Croft spins such a seductive tale, it''s impossible not to get sucked in." -- Bustle "[A] fun house of a debut novel .
[ The Extinction of Irena Rey ] becomes not just a literary thriller but an examination of the delicate mix of desire, impersonation, ambition, and selfishness that the art of literary translation requires." -- The New Republic "Croft never misses a beat, drawing upon her translation background to deliver a juicy, bordering on absurd, intricate mediation on celebrity, communication, nature and the art of language." -- The Seattle Times "Croft has reinvented ecofiction with this seductive, erudite, and terribly funny tale about ''book people.''" -- World Literature Today " The Extinction of Irena Rey is bursting with energy and cleverness, Croft''s abundant linguistic gifts and stimulating ideas on display" -- New York Review of Books " The Extinction of Irena Rey complects and complicates the relationships between translation and border politics, art and nature, image and text, truth and myth. It is about not just the extinction of its demigod-like author, but, perhaps, all of us." -- Document Journal "An interpersonal cacophony that crackles outward. a cleverly layered, multivocal novel that plays with our expectations of who is speaking and how meaning gets made in between authors, translators, and reade.