With her signature grace and insight, Olga Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind. 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. She is a Nobel Prize winner in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize for her celebrated novel Flights. The International Booker Prize 2018 winner invites her readers on a journey. In the nineteenth century, we follow Chopin’s heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw. Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish author and an activist. 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.

From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. Tokarczuks novel Flights (Bieguni, 2007, Eng. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (tkartuk born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. Lees Flights door Olga Tokarczuk verkrijgbaar bij Rakuten Kobo. Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk’s most ambitious to date.

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