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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
424
Utgivningsdatum
2017-05-17
Förlag
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Översättare
Jennifer Croft
Originalspråk
Polish
Dimensioner
197 x 130 x 27 mm
Vikt
384 g
ISBN
9781910695432

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Flights (häftad)

Flights

av Olga Tokarczuk
Häftad Engelska, 2017-05-17
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FLIGHTS, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death. In the nineteenth century, we follow Chopin's heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw. In the present we have the trials of a wife accompanying her much older husband as he teaches a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands, and the harrowing story of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish on a holiday on a Croatian island. With her signature grace and insight, Olga Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.
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`FLIGHTS could almost be an inventory of the ways narrative can serve a writer short of, and beyond, telling a story.' - Adam Mars-Jones, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

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Olga Tokarczuk is one of Poland's best and most beloved authors. In 2015 she received the Brueckepreis and the prestigious annual literary award from Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, as well as Poland's highest literary honour, the Nike, and the Nike Readers' Prize. Tokarczuk also received a Nike in 2009 for FLIGHTS. She is the author of eight novels and two short story collections, and has been translated into a dozen languages.