Flights / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Jennifer Croft.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525534198 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 403 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
Language Note: | Translated from the Polish. |
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Subject: | Travel > Fiction. |
Topic Heading: | International Booker Prize 2018 winner |
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- 14 of 14 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library.
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Smithers Public Library | F TOK (Text) | 35101011021206 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |