Flights, Hardcover

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Contributor(s):Author: Olga Tokarczuk Translator: Jennifer Croft2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEAS FEATURED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES A visionary work of fiction by ""A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald"" (Annie Proulx) ""A magnificent writer."" --Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time ""A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex."" --Washington Post From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. 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.  Review citations Library Journal Prepub Alert - pg. 74 - 03/15/2018Kirkus Reviews - 06/01/2018Publishers Weekly / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - 05/28/2018Publishers Weekly / Exceptional Presentation - 05/28/2018Publishers Weekly / Book Of Special Distinction - 05/28/2018Publishers Weekly / Top 15 Book Of The Year - 05/28/2018Publishers Weekly / Highly Recommended - 05/28/2018Publishers Weekly / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg. 30 - 06/04/2018Publishers Weekly / Exceptional Presentation - pg. 30 - 06/04/2018Publishers Weekly / Book Of Special Distinct