Ebook {Epub PDF} Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey

“Idra Novey, an acclaimed poet translator of Spanish Portuguese literature, has written a debut novel that’s a fast-paced, beguilingly playful, noirish literary mystery with a translator at its center. Ways to Disappear explores the meaning behind a writer’s words—the way they can both hide reveal deep truths Yes, there’s carnage, but there’s also exuberant love, revelations of long-buried, unhappy Estimated Reading Time: 40 secs. Idra Novey is the author of the novel Those Who Knew, a Best Book of with NPR, Esquire, BBC, Real Simple, O magazine, Kirkus Reviews and a New York Times Editors' Choice. Her first novel Ways to Dis­ap­pear received the Sami Rohr Prize, the Brooklyn Library Literary Prize, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction/5. "Idra Novey, an acclaimed poet and translator of Spanish and Portugese literature, has written a debut novel that's a fast-paced, beguilingly playful, noirish literary mystery with a translator at its center. Ways to Disappear explores the meaning behind a writer's words- /5(96).

Instead, the book I find myself recommending most right now (and most want to re-read) is Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey. Let me tell you all the reasons why Reading is Escape. I think we all intellectually understand that reading takes us out of the moment we're in and immerses us in something else. This question hides in the background Idra Novey's beguiling debut novel Ways to Disappear. When Beatriz Yagoda, household name, jewel of Brazilian literature, and absentee heart of the novel, disappears — she is last seen climbing into an almond tree, cigar in her mouth — it is pure titillation for Brazil. This is an an inventive, brilliant debut novel about the disappearance of a famous Brazilian novelist and the young translator who turns her life upside down to follow her author's trail. Idra Novey's exhilarating debut is both a novel of ideas and a novel of intrigue, an innovative combination of mystery, noir, and humor.

“Ways to Disappear centers on the complicated and mysterious relationship between author and text and reader and writer. Idra Novey has given us a first rate novel of ideas, a book that is also funny, poignant, and profound.” —DARCEY STEINKE, author of Sister Golden Hair. “Idra Novey, an acclaimed poet translator of Spanish Portuguese literature, has written a debut novel that’s a fast-paced, beguilingly playful, noirish literary mystery with a translator at its center. Ways to Disappear explores the meaning behind a writer’s words—the way they can both hide reveal deep truths Yes, there’s carnage, but there’s also exuberant love, revelations of long-buried, unhappy secrets, ruminations about what makes a satisfying life, a publisher. So it was with some trepidation that I picked up “Ways to Disappear,” the first novel by the poet and translator Idra Novey. The protagonist, Emma Neufeld, is a Portuguese-to-English.