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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] . The original Polish title refers to runaways (runners, bieguni), a sect of Old Believers, who believe that being in constant motion is a trick to avoid evil. [2]
Summary and Study Guide. Overview. Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, was published in 2007 in Kraków, Poland. 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.
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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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.
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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...
Aug 28, 2017 · Economist. Flights is a series of imaginative and mesmerising meditations on travel in all its forms, not only the philosophy and meaning of travel, but also fascinating anecdotes that take us...
