Flights (First Edition)

Tokarczuk, Olga

ISBN 10: 0525534199 / ISBN 13: 9780525534198

Published by Riverhead Books, New York, 2018

About this Item

New York: Riverhead Books, 2018. First U.S. edition. First printing, with full number line. Quarter red cloth over orange paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with publisher's original price on jacket flap ($26.00). Jacket has imprints for Nobel Prize, Man Booker Prize, and National Book Award Finalist. A tight clean copy. Octavo, 407 pages. A novel-in-fragments blending fiction, travel writing, and philosophical reflection, narrated by a wandering female observer. Winner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. This was Tokarczuk's first book published in English in the United States, and helped introduce the Polish writer to a wider readership. Tokarczuk was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019. Fiction-T.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flights (First Edition)
• Publisher: Riverhead Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0525534199
• ISBN 13: 9780525534198
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nobel Prize in Literature

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Synopsis

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
 
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx)

"A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time

"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." — Washington Post

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. 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.

About the Authors

Olga Tokarczuk has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Book International Prize, among many other honors. She is the author of a dozen works of fiction, two collections of essays, and a children’s book; her work has been translated into fifty languages.

Olga Tokarczuk is one of Poland's most celebrated and beloved authors, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize, as well as her country's highest literary honor, the Nike. She is the author of eight novels and two short story collections, and has been translated into more than thirty languages.