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1. www.goodreads.com › book › showFlights by Olga Tokarczuk - Goodreads

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   Sep 1, 2007 · 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.

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2. www.shortform.com › best-books › bookBook Reviews: Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk (Updated for 2021)

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   Learn from 12,789 book reviews of Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk. With recommendations from world experts and thousands of smart readers.

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3. thebookerprizes.com › the-booker-library › booksFlights | The Booker Prizes

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   Olga Tokarczuk’s unique novel interweaves reflections on travel with an exploration of human anatomy - examining life and death, motion and migration. Translated by Jennifer Croft. In the 17th century, the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen dissects and draws pictures of his own amputated leg.

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4. www.supersummary.com › flightsFlights Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary

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   Olga Tokarczuk, Transl. Jennifer Croft Flights A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.

5. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2018/10/01“Flights,” a Novel That Never Settles Down - The New Yorker

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   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...

6. contentcatnip.com › 2021/02/06 › book-review-flightsBook Review: Flights by Olga Tokarczuk – Content Catnip

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   Feb 6, 2021 · ― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights This quirky, darkly funny and insightful book combines compelling short stories of wanderers and voyagers, with personal anecdotes and philosophical forays. Although this isn’t just another boring novel about a traveller undergoing a personal awakening.

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   What is 'flights' by Olga Tokarczuk about?

   • Illustration by Agata Nowicka “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 of fiction, but it is also an exercise in theory, cultural anthropology, and memoir.

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   Who wrote 'flights' by Olga Tokarczuk?

   • 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.

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   What is Olga Tokarczuk best known for?

   • It was translated into English in 2017 by Jennifer Croft and received the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. Olga Tokarczuk also won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work with Flights. This literary fiction novel discusses themes of movement, travel, and writing’s role in preserving both human life and death.

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   What is Olga Tokarczuk about?

   • Olga Tokarczuk’s unique novel interweaves reflections on travel with an exploration of human anatomy - examining life and death, motion and migration. Translated by Jennifer Croft. In the 17th century, the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen dissects and draws pictures of his own amputated leg.

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   Who is Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk?

   • Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller’s answer. 416 pages, Hardcover First published September 1, 2007 Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland.

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   What does Tokarczuk say about Wikipedia?

   • Emperor Joseph II, Tokarczuk announces with apparent approval, collected “every manifestation of the aberration of the world” in his “cabinet of curiosities.” One of the book’s most suggestive micro-essays concerns Wikipedia, which Tokarczuk rightly lauds as a “wonder of the world,” a project to gather the entire globe’s knowledge.

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   Flights (Polish: Bieguni, lit. 'runners') is a 2007 fragmentary novel by the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. The book was translated into English by Jennifer Croft. [1]