NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY WALL STREET JOURNAL, ELLE, TOWN & COUNTRY, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, CRIMEREADS, DOCUMENT JOURNAL, AND WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS * NAMED A MUST READ BY NPR, PEOPLE, VANITY FAIR, NYLON, ALTA JOURNAL, AND DEBUTIFUL International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist Jennifer Croft's madly brilliant mystery novel of transformation and translation in Europe's last great wilderness. 'Savvy, sly, and hard to classify. A bacchanal.' -New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) 'Fiercely inventive.' -Washington Post 'Knives Out on mushrooms.' -Elle 'Could only be written by master of language, a tamer of different tongues. It is brilliant, fun, and absolutely alive.' -Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Eight translators gather in the primeval forest home of the world-renowned Irena Rey. They are there to translate her magnum opus together, but within days of their arrival, Irena disappears. The translators embark on a
