Flights

Tokarczuk, Olga

ISBN 10: 1910695432 / ISBN 13: 9781910695432

Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, UK, 2017

About this Item

A true UK first / first, with the correct dates and no later edition stated. Signed by the author and unmarred by a dedication / location / date. A perfect copy of this novel-told-in-fragments by the Polish author, first published in her home country in 2007. The title refers to a sect of Old Believers who thought that being in constant motion helped them avoid evil. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize No faults.

Seller Inventory # 001733

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flights
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions, UK
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910695432
• ISBN 13: 9781910695432
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

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.

About the Authors

Olga Tokarczuk is the author of nine novels, three short story collections and has been translated into more than fifty languages. Her novel Flights won the 2018 International Booker Prize, in Jennifer Croft’s translation. She is the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Empusium is her fourth novel to appear in English with Fitzcarraldo Editions.

Jennifer Croft was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2018 and was a National Book Award Finalist for her translation from Polish of Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is the recipient of Fulbright, PEN, MacDowell, and National Endowment for the Arts grants and fellowships, as well as the inaugural Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation and a Tin House Workshop Scholarship for her memoir Homesick.