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Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-2017
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"Flights is a mesmerising novel in the form of a series of meditations on travel. Olga Tokarczuk, perhaps the most brilliant Polish author of her generation, connects the idea of travel with spellbinding tales about anatomy, about life and death, about the very nature of humankind. Thrilling characters and stories abound: the members of a Russian sect who escape the devil by remaining constantly in motion; the anatomist Verheyen who writes letters to his amputated leg; the story of Chopin's heart as it makes its journey from Paris to Warsaw, stored in a tightly sealed jar beneath his sister's skirt; the quest of a Polish woman who emigrated to New Zealand as a teen but must now return in order to poison her terminally ill high-school sweetheart... Flight is an extraordinary book that seems to conjure life itself out of the air."--Back cover.
Main title:
Flights / by Olga Tokarczuk.
Author:
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-Croft, Jennifer, translator
Imprint:
Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2017.©2017.
Collation:
410 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Translation of: Bieguni.Bieguni originally published in 2007 by Wydawnictwo Literackie.Index of maps and drawings.Text in English.
Awards:
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018.
ISBN:
9781925603149 (paperback)
Language:
English
BRN:
503036
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