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Flights / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Jennifer Croft.
"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." -- Provided by the Publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525534198 (hc)
- Physical Description: 403 p. : ill., maps ; 22cm.
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in Polish as Bieguni: Kraków : Wydawn. Literackie, 2007. This translation originally published: London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017. |
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| Subject: | Travel > Fiction. Human body > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
| Topic Heading: | International Booker Prize 2018 winner |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Gibsons Public Library | FIC TOKA (Text) | 30886001056890 | Adult Fiction Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
"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."
