Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx)
"A magnificent writer." -- Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time
"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." -- Washington Post
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.
Olga Tokarczuk was born in the Polish town of Sulechów, near Zielona Góra, in the year 1962. She is one of the most highly praised authors of her generation, having won all of Poland's top literary honors. She began her career as a therapist after completing her psychology degree at the University of Warsaw, and she frequently refers to C.G. Jung as a source of inspiration for her art, which has become known for its mythmaking. Tokarczuk's value as a writer was recognized with the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, which she garnered practically every major literary prize at home and abroad.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780525534204 |
| ISBN 10 | 0525534202 |
| Title | Flights |
| Author | Olga Tokarczuk |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2019-08-13 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
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