Idra Novey. (2016). Ways to Disappear. Little, Brown and Company.

Idra Novey. 2016. Ways to Disappear. Little, Brown and Company.

Idra Novey, Ways to Disappear. Little, Brown and Company, 2016.

Idra Novey. Ways to Disappear. Little, Brown and Company, 2016.

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   • bioText: Idra Novey is an award-winning poet and translator. Born in western Pennsylvania, she has since lived in Chile, Brazil, and New York. The author of Exit, Civilian, selected for the 2011 National Poetry Series, Novey's poetry and fiction have been featured on NPR's All Things Considered, and in Slate, StoryQuarterly, The Paris Review, and Guernica. She currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.
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For fans of Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette, 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.
Beatriz Yagoda was once one of Brazil's most celebrated authors. At the age of sixty, she is mostly forgotten-until one summer afternoon when she enters a park in Rio de Janeiro, climbs into an almond tree, and disappears.
When her devoted translator Emma hears the news in wintry Pittsburgh, she flies to the sticky heat of Rio. There she joins the author's son and daughter to solve the mystery of Yagoda's disappearance and satisfy the demands of the colorful characters left in her wake, including a loan shark with a debt to collect and the washed-up editor who launched Yagoda's career. What they discover is how much of her they never knew.
Exquisitely imagined and as...

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For fans of Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette, 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.
Beatriz Yagoda was once one of Brazil's most celebrated authors. At the age of sixty, she is mostly forgotten-until one summer afternoon when she enters a park in Rio de Janeiro, climbs into an almond tree, and disappears.
When her devoted translator Emma hears the news in wintry Pittsburgh, she flies to the sticky heat of Rio. There she joins the author's son and daughter to solve the mystery of Yagoda's disappearance and satisfy the demands of the colorful characters left in her wake, including a loan shark with a debt to collect and the washed-up editor who launched Yagoda's career. What they discover is how much of her they never knew.
Exquisitely imagined and as profound as it is suspenseful, Ways to Disappear is at once a thrilling story of intrigue and a radiant novel of self-reckoning.
"An elegant page-turner....Charges forward with the momentum of a bullet."-New York Times Book Review

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   • source: Heller McAlpin, NPR
   • content: 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—the way they can both hide and reveal deep truths....Novey's novel delivers on its promises in so many ways. 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's regrets about moral compromises in both his work and his use of his family wealth and connections, and an alternately heartfelt and wry portrait of the satisfactions and anxieties of the generally underappreciated art of translation....Ways to Disappear is concerned not just with truth and the risks of its misplacement and misinterpretation, but with the importance of close reading. It's a delightful, inventive paean to writing that generates 'real emotion' and 'genuine unease.' At one point Beatriz's publisher likens literature to steaks on a grill, testing both 'for density' as well as 'for something tender in the middle yet still heavy enough to blacken the air.' This book is seared to perfection.
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   • source: Catherine Lacey, New York Times Book Review
   • content: [An] elegant page-turner....Novey writes with cool precision and breakneck pacing....This lush and tightly woven novel manages to be a meditation on all forms of translation while still charging forward with the momentum of a bullet.
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   • source: Jane Ciabattari, BBC
   • content: [A] seductive mystery....Novey, a poet and translator, brings to her first novel a zesty comic touch and refreshing insights into the delicate processes of writing and translation.
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   • source: Elliott Holt, O, The Oprah Magazine
   • content: Bewitching....A tale of playful suspense that ingeniously transmutes into a profound meditation on language and love.
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   • source: Charles Finch, USA Today
   • content: Exhilarating....Sly, lovely writing.... In Raquel, Beatriz's hard-bitten daughter, [Novey] has created a heart-rending portrait of the price someone always ends up paying for genius. A writer to watch.
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   • source: Anita Felicelli, San Francisco Chronicle
   • content: Novey's elegant, comic debut....a novel whose power of enchantment rival those of its fictional author.
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   • source: Carmela Ciuraru, New York Times
   • content: [Novey] sustains suspense throughout with beautifully restrained prose.
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   • source: Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
   • content: Reminiscent of a Coen brothers movie....[a] spare, witty riddle of a novel.
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   • source: Dustin Illingworth, Los Angeles Times
   • content: Novey - poet, translator, and now novelist - has created something special with the brisk, beautiful Ways to Disappear, a book that blooms in the spaces between languages, between continents, between selves past and present.
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    • source: Katherine Hill, Philadelphia Inquirer
    • content: [A] delightful debut....[moments] resonate in clever, often haunting, ways.
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    • source: Jeffrey Ann Goudie, Kansas City Star
    • content: Novey writes elegantly and with slanted humor about beauty, loss, abandonment, and surprising acts of self-discovery....[This novel] mimics pulp fiction on its caperish exterior, but is literary fiction in its deep center....With touches of mystery, commentary about the art of translating as well as inventing fiction, prose that reads like poetry, and snatches of actual poems, Ways to Disappear is a gem.
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    • source: Meredith Turits, Elle.com
    • content: Novey is astute, funny, and cunning in this story, which even in its brevity covers so much lush ground.
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    • source: Margie Romero, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    • content: Uniquely captivating....an immensely entertaining read.
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    • source: Julia Irion Martins, Village Voice
    • content: If New Directions' reissue of Clarice Lispector's The Complete Stories left you wanting more mysterious Brazilian-lady writers, Idra Novey's debut novel is here for you.
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    • source: Virtuoso Life
    • content: (A) wholly original, wickedly fun debut novel.
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    • source: Hector Tobar, author of Deep Down Dark
    • content: This amazing first novel is unlike any other you've ever read. Ways to Disappear is a lush page-turner, a journey into the unique madness of modern Brazil, and a joyful ride into the crazed passion of literary creation itself. Idra Novey is a wonder of a writer.
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    • source: Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!
    • content: Idra Novey is an enchantress. Her sentences are so surprising and beautiful, her vision of the world so kaleidoscopic, that I fell immediately and permanently under the spell of this glorious novel.
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    • source: Francisco Goldman, author of Say Her Name
    • content: With all its shimmering brilliance and insight, vividly
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      Starred review from October 26, 2015
      Poet and translator Novey’s briskly paced first novel is a clever literary mystery and a playful portrait of the artist as a young translator. Novey depicts her heroine, Emma, becoming embroiled in the life of an enigmatic Brazilian author, Beatriz Yagoda, whose books she has translated for years. When Beatriz, last seen puffing on a cigar and perched on a tree branch with a suitcase, goes missing, Emma leaves Pittsburgh, Pa., and her stick-in-the-mud fiancé behind to fly to Rio and find Beatriz, the author of works “so strange and spare that it felt like a whispered, secret history of the world.” Emma is convinced that these works, along with a cryptic, unfinished manuscript left behind, could elucidate the mystery of Beatriz’s whereabouts. The search is conducted alongside Beatriz’s two adult children, one who resents the “gangly tourist” and the other who seduces her, and it has its share of violence and romance—it reads like an Ali Smith novel with a fun Brazilian noir vibe. But underlying these comic noir elements is an eloquent meditation on the art and anxiety of translation, as well as a story about literature as a means of revelation and concealment: who ultimately knows more about the secretive missing woman, the translator intimately familiar with her writing or the children who have never finished any of her books? Agent: PJ Mark, Janklow & Nesbit Associates.

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      November 1, 2015
      A famous novelist's disappearance upends the life of her American translator. Novey's surreal debut begins as a mystery: legendary Brazilian writer Beatriz Yagoda has inexplicably climbed into an almond tree with a cigar and a suitcase and has not been seen since. Upon receiving the news--is she aware, an unfamiliar emailer wants to know, that her author has been missing for five days?--translator Emma Neufeld puts her life in Pittsburgh on hold and hops a flight to Rio de Janeiro to join the search, much to the chagrin of her sweetly dull boyfriend. On the ground in Rio, the situation quickly begins to clarify: Beatriz Yagoda is not only a serious literary novelist, but also a serious online poker player who now owes an angry loan shark half a million dollars, or else. And so, together with Yagoda's adult children, Raquel (practical) and Marcus (overwhelmingly handsome), Emma embarks on a madcap chase to track down the missing author while fending off the increasingly impatient shark. Meanwhile, Yagoda's publisher, Roberto Rocha, burned out by a sea of lesser manuscripts and desperate for another one of hers, finds himself equally entangled: he doesn't know any more about her whereabouts than Emma and the rest, but he's been the one responding to her secret requests for cash, and--more importantly--he's the one with the means to pay off her debts. Stylish, absurd, sometimes romantic, and often very funny, the novel is as much about the writing process as it is about the high-stakes plot. And if it doesn't always add up to more than the sum of its parts--like a dream, the book is almost overwhelmingly vivid when you're in it, and the details dissipate quickly when you're not--taken piece by piece, it's a tour de force. Delightful and original.

      COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      October 15, 2015
      In this short first novel, poet and translator Novey tells a fast-paced, supremely engaging story of characters with good intentions who quickly get in over their heads. When popular Brazilian author Beatriz Yagoda goes missing, her American translator, Emma, embarks on a poorly planned journey to find her. Easy enough, she thinks, only to find herself at odds with Yagoda's business-minded daughter, Raquel, and completely infatuated with Marcus, the author's son. The trio runs in circles in their search, until a tough-talking loan shark shows up and proves he means business when a second member of the Yagoda clan disappears. Novey's narration switches from Emma to the Yagodas to Beatriz's frantic publisher and is interspersed by snippets of news reports, dictionary entries, and email exchanges between Emma and her increasingly suspicious life partner back home in Pittsburgh. Novey's characters are hilariously impulsive, terribly misguided, hopelessly lost, relentlessly determined, and immediately sympathetic. An incisive meditation on the relationship between literature and life, a reflection on the cumulative result of everyday decisions, and a dazzling, truly memorable work of humor and heart.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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      September 15, 2015
      

      Novey, who showed us she could write when her Exit, Civilian was selected for the 2011 National Poetry Series, offers a first novel with a writer at the core. Except that this writer, celebrated Brazilian Beatriz Yagoda, has vanished, having last been seen climbing into an almond tree with a suitcase, and her devoted American translator rushes southward to find out what happened.

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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