Welcome to Litsy!

Starting next because might be on #ToB2025 Long List? #Hurryupalready

(Pic from a concert in 2015 that I don‘t remember… but thought might make a good backdrop for this cover 🤷🏻‍♀️)

To be honest I have no clue what I just read. The story is pretty clear but there‘s so much going on around it. In linguistics, in plot, in characters, in layers. Maybe it‘s good but it was hard to keep track and I lacked motivation towards the end.

#WhereAreYouMonday

I am in Bialowieza, a Polish village at the edge of the primeval forest and five miles from the Belarusian border.
I‘ve come here looking for Irena Rey!

My book club didn‘t hate me for picking this after all. In fact, the one person who finished it kind of liked it. For me it was too strange and layered. It sounded interesting though!

Takes place in eastern Poland. #whereareyoumonday

Mystery, anxiety, celebrity, adoration, myth, nature, “death of the author.” Translators have arrived & writer is missing. Followers freak w/out a source text. Clever, petty, silly, meta. 2024

5 “We treated her every word as sacred, even though our whole task was to replace her every word.”

43 “all we really wanted was the novel. We wanted to possess it, to stake our claim to it, to make it our own before anyone else even knew of its existence.”

There are #leaves on the cover and leaves on the trees in the forest by the house where most of the action takes place, in this very quirky book. I hope my book club doesn‘t hate me for suggesting this. #coverlove

I expected this one to be super weird and it was, but turns out it‘s my kind of weird. Croft explores the relationship between authors and their translators and plays with language (I‘m sure even more than I realized), as well as winking at her own work. I didn‘t love the ending and this won‘t be for everyone, but I dug it.