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.

Item details

ISBN: 9780525534198
ISBN: 0525534199
ISBN: 9780525534211
Physical Description: print
403 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.

Contents / Notes

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 -- vGuidance from Cioran -- Kunicki: water (I) -- Benedictus, quivenit -- PANOPTICON -- KUNICKI: WATER (II) -- EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE -- 61 AIRPORTS -- RETURNING TO ONE ROOTS -- TRAVEL SIZES -- MANO DI GIOVANNI BATTISTA -- THE ORIGINAL AND THE COPY -- TRAINS FOR COWARDS -- ABANDONED APARTMENT -- THE BOOK OF INFAMY -- GUIDEBOOKS -- NEW ATHENS -- WIKIPEDIA -- CITIZENS OF THE WORLD, PICK UP YOUR PENS! -- TRAVEL PSYCHOLOGY: LECTIO BREVIS I -- THE RIGHT TIME AND PLACE -- INSTRUCTIONS -- ASH WEDNESDAY FEAST -- NORTH POLE EXPEDITIONS -- THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AN ISLAND -- PURGING THE MAP -- IN PURSUIT OF NIGHT -- SANITARY PADS -- RELICS: PEREGRINATIO AD LOCA SANCTA -- BELLY DANCE -- MERIDIANS -- UNUS MUNDUS -- HAREM (MENCHU TALE) -- ANOTHER OF MENCHU TALES -- CLEOPATRAS -- A VERY LONG QUARTER OF AN HOUR -- APULEIUS THE DONKEY -- MEDIA PRESENTERS -- ATATÜRK REFORMS -- KALI YUGA -- WAX MODEL COLLECTIONS -- DR BLAU TRAVELS (I) -- JOSEFINE SOLIMAN FIRST LETTER TO FRANCIS I, EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA -- AMONG THE MAORI -- DR BLAU TRAVELS (II) -- PLANE OF PROFLIGATES.
Language Note:	In English, translated from the Polish.
Awards Note:	Man Booker International Prize, 2018

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