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The main character and narrator is Janina Duszejko, a woman in her 60s living in a rural area in the Polish Kłodzko Valley, eccentric in perception of other humans through astrology and fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. She decides to investigate the murders of members of the local hunting ...
Tokarczuk answers this question in one of the novel’s last sections, “Final Timetable.” The narrator joins other travelers at an exhibit to view preserved bodies and pieces of bodies through Plexiglass boxes.
Olga Tokarczuk is young for a Nobel Prize winner. She received the award four years ago, at fifty-seven, for “a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundarie...
Plow is the only Tokarczuk I have read. Was very engaged by the batty-old-woman persona of the narrator, which made the final reveal (though predictable in a way) very satisfying. I also liked how the bleakness of the settings contrasts the hot-headed narrator and also accentuates the cold aspects of her personality at times.
Jan 31, 2022 · Born in 1962 in Sulechów, Poland, Tokarczuk writes what she calls “constellation novels,” blending memoir, fiction, and lyric sketches into a single narrative.
Sep 24, 2018 · “Flights,” by the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead), is exciting in the way that unclassifiable things are exciting—that is to say, at times confoundingly so. It is intermittently a work...
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 was awarded to Olga Tokarczuk "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life"
