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1. 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...

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Flights_(novel)Flights (novel) - Wikipedia

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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]

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

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   45 pages • 1 hour read. Olga Tokarczuk, Transl. Jennifer Croft. Flights. Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007. 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. Download PDF. Access Full Guide. Study Guide.

6. 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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7. www.nytimes.com › 2018/08/14 › booksFables Leap Back and Forth Through Time in ‘Flights’

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   Aug 14, 2018 · “Flights,” the newly translated novel by Olga Tokarczuk, winner of this year’s Man Booker International Prize, was first published in Poland in 2008 as “Bieguni,” a word for a fictional group of...

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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 '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.

   “Flights,” a Novel That Never Settles Down | The New Yorker

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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.

   Flights | The Booker Prizes

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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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9. www.npr.org › 2018/08/15 › 638603756'Flights' Is A Trip, If You Like Wandering Off The Edges Of ...

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   Aug 15, 2018 · Polish author Olga Tokarczuk's new collection is a cabinet of curiosities — surreal, loosely connected stories about the human body, about movement, about two-headed calves and saints' relics.