In this week's Open Book, Jennifer Croft, author of 'The Extinction of Irena Rey,' tells us why you should always honor your translators.
, out today, almost otherworldly novel set in Europe’s last remaining original forest. When eight translators arrive at the Polish woodland home of world-renowned author Irena Rey to translate her magnum opus, they are faced with her mysterious disappearance and are subsequently thrown into a parallel world of botanical secrets, forced to reckon with their own rivalries and obsessions.
Before I ever traveled internationally, my experience with forests was limited to northeastern Oklahoma, where I grew up. But that experience was also one of wonderment and magic, and fear, of course, and thrill. One of the traditional stories of the forested camp where I spent part of every summer was Jane Shaw Ward’s, about a character who was “something like a tiger, and something like a jaguar, and something like a badger,” and who was always getting into trouble.
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