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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. 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.
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. 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.
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Constellation novels, philosophical murder mysteries, and mythic historical chronicles offer readers intricate explorations of geography, identity, and human memory, as seen in the internationally celebrated book Flights. Written by Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, these works have been translated into more than thirty languages, earning her both the Nike Award—Poland's highest literary honor—and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Born on January 29, 1962, in Sulechów, Poland, Tokarczuk grew up in Klenica, where her parents worked as teachers and her father managed a school library that fostered her early reading habits. She studied psychology at the University of Warsaw before debuting as a fiction writer in 1993 with the novel Podróż ludzi Księgi (The Journey of the Book-People), which received the Polish Publisher's Prize for best debut. Tokarczuk eventually settled in Wrocław and published eight novels alongside multiple short story collections, developing into one of Poland's most prominent literary authors.
Tokarczuk gained broad international prominence in 2018 when her novel Flights won the Man Booker International Prize, making her the first Polish writer to receive the award. That same year, the Swedish Academy selected her for the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature (awarded in 2019), honoring her narrative imagination that represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.
Tokarczuk's prose is known for its wry perspective and non-linear narrative structures that leap between centuries, mythologies, and shifting viewpoints. Drawing on Gnosticism, Kabbalah, folklore, tarot, and regional history, her books frequently examine environmental ethics, human migration, fluid identity, and the historic entwinement of Central and Eastern European cultures.
4 books in catalog
Constellation novels, philosophical murder mysteries, and mythic historical chronicles offer readers intricate explorations of geography, identity, and human memory, as seen in the internationally celebrated book Flights. Written by Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, these works have been translated into more than thirty languages, earning her both the Nike Award—Poland's highest literary honor—and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Born on January 29, 1962, in Sulechów, Poland, Tokarczuk grew up in Klenica, where her parents worked as teachers and her father managed a school library that fostered her early reading habits. She studied psychology at the University of Warsaw before debuting as a fiction writer in 1993 with the novel Podróż ludzi Księgi (The Journey of the Book-People), which received the Polish Publisher's Prize for best debut. Tokarczuk eventually settled in Wrocław and published eight novels alongside multiple short story collections, developing into one of Poland's most prominent literary authors.
Tokarczuk gained broad international prominence in 2018 when her novel Flights won the Man Booker International Prize, making her the first Polish writer to receive the award. That same year, the Swedish Academy selected her for the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature (awarded in 2019), honoring her narrative imagination that represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.
Tokarczuk's prose is known for its wry perspective and non-linear narrative structures that leap between centuries, mythologies, and shifting viewpoints. Drawing on Gnosticism, Kabbalah, folklore, tarot, and regional history, her books frequently examine environmental ethics, human migration, fluid identity, and the historic entwinement of Central and Eastern European cultures.
