Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

Flights by Olga TokarczukFLIGHTS, 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

told with humour and heart

when it became a best-seller and stirred up much controversy

and remember long after the final page

but simple murders

workplaces

disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her

The classic novel of a post-literate future

in her first-ever translation

discover this audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire

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