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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...
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]
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.
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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.
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...
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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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. On to the 18th century, where a North African-born ...
