Join Jennifer Croft for a conversation with Julie Orringer, the New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Bridge. Croft and Orringer will discuss the novel, the power of language, and what is at stake in the process of translation.
The latest installment of The International Library series features Jennifer Croft’s debut novel The Extinction of Irena Ray, a hilarious and beguiling look at the art of translation. Croft, the International Booker Prize-winning translator of Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk, has crafted a page-turning story about eight translators from around the world who are tasked with translating the latest work of Irena Ray, a renowned Polish author. When Irena goes missing in a primeval Polish forest, the translators must put aside their differences to search for the author they admire. Croft’s work is a lively and metatextual exploration of the relationships between authors and translators that “could only be written by master of language, a tamer of different tongues” (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain Gang All-Stars).
