Flights

Tokarczuk, Olga; Jennifer Croft (Trans)

ISBN 10: 0525534199 / ISBN 13: 9780525534198

Published by Riverhead Books, New York, 2018

About this Item

B & W Figures; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 416 pages; 2018 Riverhead Books HC/DJ 1st American edition, 1st printing with complete 1-10 printing line. Soundly bound and clean in original color pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $26 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Just superficial handling evidence and mild shelf evidence to jacket edges. VG++/VG++.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flights
• Publisher: Riverhead Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0525534199
• ISBN 13: 9780525534198
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Modern 1st editions

About this title

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.