Flights

Tokarczuk, Olga 1962- (author.). Croft, Jennifer (Translator), (translator.). Tokarczuk, Olga 1962- Here I am. (Added Author). Tokarczuk, Olga 1962- World in your head. (Added Author). Tokarczuk, Olga 1962- Your head in the world. (Added Author). Tokarczuk, Olga 1962- Syndrome. (Added Author). Tokarczuk, Olga 1962- Cabinet of curiosities. (Added Author). Tokarczuk, Olga 1962- Seeing is knowing. (Added Author). Tokarczuk, Olga 1962- Seven years of trips. (Added Author). Tokarczuk, Olga 1962- Guidance from Cioran. (Added Author). Tokarczuk, Olga 1962- Kunicki: water (I) (Added Author). Tokarczuk, Olga 1962- Benedictus, quivenit. (Added Author).

Summary: 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: 9780525534211
ISBN: 0525534210
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (403 pages) : illustrations, maps
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York City : Penguin Publishing Group 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Here I am -- World in your head -- Your head in the world -- Syndrome -- Cabinet of curiosities -- Seeing is knowing -- Seven years of trips -- Guidance from Cioran -- Kunicki: water (I) -- Benedictus, quivenit.
Language Note:	Translated from the Polish.
Awards Note:	Man Booker International Prize, 2018.