Flights
by Olga Tokarczuk
ISBN: 9781910695821
Published: 2018-06-04
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018 Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death. In the nineteenth 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, and the harrowing story of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish on a holiday on a Croatian island. With her signature...
Compare Prices
-
Liber BookshopOut of StockChecked: 6 days agoVisit Store€12.50+ €4.50 shipping (Free over €50)€17.00
-
Gutter BookshopIn StockChecked: 1 day agoVisit Store€12.65+ €3.00 shipping (Free over €30)€15.65
-
Books UpstairsOut of StockChecked: 3 days agoVisit Store€12.95+ €3.00 shipping€15.95
-
Dingle BookshopIn StockChecked: 1 day agoVisit Store€14.00+ €6.00 shipping€20.00
You Might Also Like
Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk
The Empusium
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk: Flights
Tokarczuk, Olga & Croft, Jennifer
Primeval and Other Times
Olga Tokarczuk
My First Book of the Human Body
Chiara Piroddi
The Human Body Is a Hive
Erica Gillingham
Kay’s Anatomy: A Complete (and Completely Disgusting) Guide to the Human Body
Adam Kay
Your nose
Nick Arnold