The Extinction of Irena Rey [electronic resource]

Jennifer Croft2024

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‘Incredibly strange, savvy, sly and hard to classify. I also couldn’t put it down … What I did not expect was that Croft’s debut would frolic so joyfully, so rigorously, in the absurd, the inane, and stay there from start to finish. Or that I’d end up frolicking with her. Reader, if you’re looking to get your heart thrashed, this may not be the novel for you. But if you’re up for a romp through a wilderness of ideas, innuendo and ecological intrigue (who knew there even was such a thing?), stay with me … None of this craziness feels frivolous. On the contrary, the novel’s staked in anxieties about climate change, extinction and the unbalancing of nature thanks to art … Mad with plot and language and gorgeous prose, and the result is a bacchanal, really, which is the opposite of extinction. Such is the irony of art.’ Fiona Maazel, The New York Times Book Review From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, beguiling novel...