Contributions

  • Croft, Jennifer (Translator), translator - Contributor
  • Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- - Contributor

Publication

2018 - Riverhead Books, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

100,750 words, Guess

Page Count

403 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100525534199
  • ISBN-139780525534198
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017039765
  • OCLC Control Number1006532060
  • Better World Books9780525534198
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Classifications

  • DDC891.8/537
  • LCCPG7179.O37 B5413 2018
  • LCCPG7179.O37B5413 2018

Description

A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. 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.

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  • FlightsRiverhead Books2018-01-01
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