Flights Bieguni Olga Tokarczuk Jennifer Croft Translation by Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (translation) 9780525534198, 0525534199, B077LT1GS8 instant download after payment.

Flights, a novel about travel in the 21st century & human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives & reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, & migration. 

From the 17th century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected & drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the 18th century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed & put on display after his death. In the 19th 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, & the harrowing story of a young husband whose wife & child mysteriously vanish on a holiday on a Croatian island. 

"It is a novel of intuitions as much as ideas, a cacophony of voices & stories seemingly unconnected across time & space, which meander between the profound & the facetious, the mysterious & the ordinary, & whose true register remains one of glorious ambiguity ... Flights has echoes of WG Sebald, Milan Kundera, Danilo Kiš & Dubravka Ugrešić, but Tokarczuk inhabits a rebellious, playful register very much her own ... Flights is a passionate & enchantingly discursive plea for meaningful connectedness." —Kapka Kassabova, The Guardian

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Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer & activist, & one of the most critically acclaimed & successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for a narrative imagination that with encyclopaedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life’. Beyond Flights, her other work include Primeval & Other Times, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead