Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Jennifer Croft
Contributors: Croft, Jennifer (Translator), translator; Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-; Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-; Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-; Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-; Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-; Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-; Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-; Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-; Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-; Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780525534198
Subjects: Women travelers; Travelers; Fiction; Voyages and travels; Interpersonal relations; Human mechanics; Human body; Human anatomy
Work titles: Bieguni
Description: 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.
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.

In English, translated from the Polish.

Man Booker International Prize, 2018
Table of contents: title: Here I am; title: World in your head; title: Your head in the world; title: Syndrome; title: Cabinet of curiosities; title: Seeing is knowing; title: Seven years of trips; title: Guidance from Cioran; title: Kunicki: water (I); title: Benedictus, quivenit.