The Extinction of Irena Rey

"In March Jennifer Croft, the International Booker Prize-winning translator of Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights , will publish a novel—possibly her first, depending on how you define her earlier book Homesick . In The Extinction of Irena Rey , eight translators arrive at a house deep in the primeval forest ready to translate a book by a revered Polish author. Shortly after they arrive, the writer the have come to pay tribute to disappears. It’s a strange and very funny book that offers fascinating insight into the world of the literary translator."