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Author:

Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- author.

Title:

Flights / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Jennifer Croft.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publisher:

Riverhead Books,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

403 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Travelers--Fiction.
Women travelers--Fiction.
Human mechanics--Fiction.
Human anatomy--Fiction.
Human body--Fiction.
Voyages and travels--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Croft, Jennifer (Translator), translator.
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Here I am.
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- World in your head.
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Your head in the world.
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Syndrome.
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Cabinet of curiosities.
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Seeing is knowing.
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Seven years of trips.
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Guidance from Cioran.
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Kunicki: water (I).
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Benedictus, quivenit.

Other Titles:

Bieguni. English

Notes:

"Originally published in Polish as Bieguni by Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków. English language edition first published in Great Britain by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London"--Title page verso.

Contents:

Here I am -- World in your head -- Your head in the world -- Syndrome -- Cabinet of curiosities -- Seeing is knowing -- Seven years of trips -- Guidance from Cioran -- Kunicki: water (I) -- Benedictus, quivenit.

Summary:

A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.

ISBN:

0525534199
9780525534198

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1006532060

LCCN:

2017039765

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