Flights

Name: Flights
Rating: 3.5555555555555554 (9 reviews)
Author: Olga Tokarczuk
ISBN: 9780525534198

by Olga Tokarczuk

3.6

(9 ratings)

403 pages2018Riverhead BooksISBN 9780525534198

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A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. 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.

Publication Details

Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2018
Pages: 403
ISBN: 9780525534198
Language: en

About Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (ur. 29 stycznia 1962 w Sulechowie) – polska pisarka, eseistka, poetka i autorka scenariuszy, psycholożka, laureatka Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury za rok 2018, laureatka The Man Booker International Prize 2018 za powieść Bieguni oraz dwukrotna laureatka Nagrody Literackiej „Nike” za powieści: *Bieguni* (2008) i *Księgi Jakubowe* (2015). ---------- Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk ([tɔˈkart͡ʂuk]; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. In 2019, she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life." For her novel *Flights,* Tokarczuk has been awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize (translated by Jennifer Croft). Her works include Primeval and *Other Times, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead,* and *The Books of Jacob.* [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Tokarczuk)