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Flights / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Jennifer Croft.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Polish Publisher: New York, NY : Riverhead Books, [2018]Edition: First American editionDescription: 403 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780525534198 (hardcover)
  • 0525534199 (hardcover)
Uniform titles:
  • Bieguni. English
Contained works:
  • Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Here I am
  • Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- World in your head
  • Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Your head in the world
  • Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Syndrome
  • Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Cabinet of curiosities
  • Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Seeing is knowing
  • Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Seven years of trips
  • Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Guidance from Cioran
  • Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Kunicki: water (I)
  • Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Benedictus, quivenit
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 891.8/537 23
LOC classification:
  • PG7179.O37 B5413 2018
Other classification:
  • 18.54
Contents:
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.
Awards:
  • Man Booker International Prize, 2018
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book Clearwater Memorial Public Library - (Orofino) Fiction FICTION TOKARCZUK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31853021195503
Book Book Deary Community Library (Latah Library District) Fiction FIC TOKARCZUK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 31853021945949
Total holds: 0

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.

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.

In English, translated from the Polish.

Man Booker International Prize, 2018