The girl begins by learning how to swim in strange and unfamiliar water. Boys get this from the beginning, they don’t have to make any special effort. Many consider Tokarczuk to be the most important Polish writer of her generation and Flights is one of those rare books that seems to conjure life itself out of the air. Flights (Book) In its original Polish, Olga Tokarczuk’s International Man Booker Prize-winning opus had another title: Bieguni, named for a fictional sect of Slavic nomads who wander the planet. Every person born a woman must work incredibly hard to get away from predetermined roles. You will never read anything like this extraordinary, utterly original, mind-expanding book. Thrilling characters and stories abound: the Russian sect who escape the devil by remaining constantly in motion the anatomist Verheyen who writes letters to his amputated leg the story of Chopin’s heart as it makes its journey from Paris to Warsaw, stored in a tightly sealed jar beneath his sister’s skirt the quest of a Polish woman who emigrated to New Zealand as a teen but must now return in order to poison her terminally ill high-school sweetheart… Olga Tokarczuk brilliantly connects travel with spellbinding anecdotes about anatomy, about life and death, about the very nature of humankind. Flights, which was awarded Polands biggest. Praising her book Flights, now published in the United States, the chairman of the. Many consider Olga Tokarczuk to be the most important Polish writer of her generation.

Flights is a series of imaginative and mesmerising meditations on travel in all its forms, not only the philosophy and meaning of travel, but also fascinating anecdotes that take us out of ourselves, and back to ourselves. This past May, Olga Tokarczuk became the first Polish writer to win the Man Booker International Prize.

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