Flights: Nobel Prize and Booker Prize Winner

Tokarczuk, Olga

ISBN 10: 0525534199 / ISBN 13: 9780525534198

Edité par Riverhead Books, 2018

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signed by author; signature obtained in person by bookseller; dust jacket has some wrinkles along top edges and slight wear; best novel of prize-winning author.

N° de réf. du vendeur 4135

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Flights: Nobel Prize and Booker Prize Winner
• Éditeur: Riverhead Books
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0525534199
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780525534198
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • fiction

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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.

À propos de l?auteur

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.