Flights *Special Edition*: by Olga Tokarczuk - Hardcover

Tokarczuk, Olga

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1804271268 ISBN 13: 9781804271261

Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2024

Synopsis

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. Flights is published here as a limited edition hardback as part of Fitzcarraldo Editions’ First Decade Collection.

About this title

About the Authors

Olga Tokarczuk is the author of nine novels, three short story collections and has been translated into forty-five languages. Her novel Flights won the 2018 International Booker Prize, in Jennifer Croft’s translation. In 2019, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 

Jennifer Croft is the recipient of Fulbright, PEN, and National Endowment for the Arts grants, as well as the Michael Henry Heim Prize, and her translations from Polish, Spanish, and Ukrainian have appeared in the New York Times, n+1, Electric Literature, The New Republic, BOMB, Guernica, and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She is a founding editor of The Buenos Aires Review.

From the Back Cover

The First Decade Collection is a limited edition series of ten hardbacks celebrating the breadth of Fitzcarraldo Editions' publishing over the first ten years. With a run of 1000 copies, each book is casebound in fine linen cloth and features signed and numbered book plates, a belly band and custom marbled endpapers.

With Flights, a novel interweaving reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1804271268
• ISBN 13: 9781804271261
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432