With her signature grace and insight, Olga Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind. Flights, a work of fiction but has the gist of history, culture and, science. Flights by Olga Tokarczuk - 9780525534204 Categories: Contemporary Fiction Fantasy Fantasy Books Short Story Books Fantasy Books for Kids 19 off Share Flights 3.76 (27,259 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback English By (author) Olga Tokarczuk, Translated by Jennifer Croft US13.72 US17.00 You save US3.28 Free delivery worldwide Available. Olga showed her extraordinary skill through her exceptional writing.
She is a Nobel Prize winner in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize for her celebrated novel Flights. In the present we have the trials of a wife accompanying her much older husband as he teaches a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands, and the harrowing story of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish on a holiday on a Croatian island. Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish author and an activist. In the nineteenth century, we follow Chopin's heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw. From the eighteenth century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death.
From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date.
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