All told, she has published a collection of poems, several novels, as well as other books with shorter prose works. Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual, who has been described in Poland as one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful authors of her generation. Awards-Nobel Prize for Literature Man Booker International Prize.Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. 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. A young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear.A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart.

Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister.

Winner, 2018 Man Booker International Prizeįrom 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.

Olga Tokarczuk (Trans., Jennifer Croft), 2018

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