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Flights : Nobel Prize and Booker Prize Winner by Olga Tokarczuk (2018, Hardcover)
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer.".
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100525534199
ISBN-139780525534198
eBay Product ID (ePID)240988077
Product Key Features
Original LanguagePolish
Book TitleFlights : Nobel Prize and Booker Prize Winner
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Magical Realism, General, Literary
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorOlga Tokarczuk
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight18 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2019-457050
ReviewsPraise for Olga Tolkarczuk and Flights : "Disarming and wonderfully encouraging...Croft''s translation from Polish is light as a feather yet captures well the economy and depth of Tokarczuk''s deceptively simple style. A welcome reminder of how love drives out fear and also a worthy Man Booker International winner for 2018." --The Millions "Tokarczuk is one of Europe''s most daring and original writers, and this astonishing performance is her glittering, bravura entry in the literature of ideas... A select few novels possess the wonder of music, and this is one of them...An international, mercurial, and always generous book, to be endlessly revisited." --Los Angeles Review of Books "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald." -- Annie Proulx "Flights is a small opening into a universe of other possibilities, a journey to a new and unfamiliar landscape. After reading this beautiful and extraordinarily wise book, readers may find themselves catching a literary version of Tokarczuk''s travel bug, seeking--in an image that recurs throughout the novel--the edge of the world, where the celestial spheres and all the stars of the firmament can be seen, stretching into the infinite." --World Literature Today "An indisputable masterpiece...Punctuated by maps and figures, the discursive novel is reminiscent of the work of Sebald. The threads ultimately converge in a remarkable way, making this an extraordinary accomplishment." --Publisher''s Weekly (starred) "[Tokarczuk''s] "characters are drawn to precision...[ Flights is] complex and layered, forming an exploration into the impermanence of existence and experience." --Booklist "A magnificent writer." -- Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time "One among a very few signal European novelists of the past quarter-century." --The Economist "A household name in Poland and one of Europe''''s major humanist writers, [with] echoes of W. G. Sebald [and] Milan Kundera, Tokarczuk inhabits a rebellious, playful register very much her own. . . . Flights is a passionate and enchantingly discursive plea for meaningful connectedness. . . . I can think of no better travel companion in these turbulent, fanatical times." --The Guardian "Thoughtful, ironic...Tokarczuk has a sly sense of humor...A welcome introduction to a major author and a pleasure for fans of contemporary European literature." -- Kirkus Reviews "A brilliant, experimental tour de force... [Tokarczuk''s] known in Poland for her mythical prose style, and Jennifer Croft, to her immense credit, has beautifully translated this quality into English: Flights is filled with liquid, mellifluous prose." --The London Magazine "Every sentence lands with the artful cadence of a poet." -- Deborah Levy, author of Swimming Home "An ambitious work . . . Tokarczuk is a cheerful, garrulous narrator. Her casual style recalls the prose of Eula Biss or Susana Moreira Marques, and . . . Rebecca Solnit. . . . This is a book about rootlessness in the grandest sense-- which is to say it is a book about mortality. " -- The Times Literary Supplement "Centred on travel as a 21st-century modus vivendi, it invites you to reassess the notions of home and away." --The Spectator "...both a novel and an intricate anatomy of travel, occupying a playfully ambiguous zone between fiction and non-fiction." --The New Statesman "Tokarczuk''s peerless travel guide is actually a guide to living...This is as brilliant and life-affirming as literature gets...After reading this book, you''ll likely never see the world the same again. " -- The Saturday Paper "An extraordinary book that roams in space and time, and is lucid and full of curiosity. I wish I could write like her. " -- Irish Times, Praise for Flights : "[Tokarczuk] seems to pour the contents of her incandescent mind onto the page.... Some bits read like campfire tales -- stories of an inebriated, Moby-Dick -quoting ferryboat captain gone rogue on his daily route, or a foolish prince straight out of Arabian Nights .... Taken all together, Flights has the quality of a dream.... It's magical: electrifying, strange, and sensationally alive." --Entertainment Weekly "A revelation ... Flights is a witty, imaginative, hard-to-classify work that is in the broadest sense about travel.... In this risky, restlessly mercurial book, [Tokarczuk has] found a way of turning...philosophy into writing that doesn't just take flight but soars." - NPR's "Fresh Air" "[There's] no better travel companion in these turbulent, fanatical times." --The Guardian " Flights functions more like a cabinet of curiosities, the kind which served as a precursor to natural history museums. Within drawers of different sizes, curious onlookers might find animal and botanical specimens, minerals, and man-made objects ... Flights is like opening drawer after drawer and discovering similar treasures... There is also a sense of the odd, of the surreal, right around the corner... for those who like traveling beyond the edges of the map." -- NPR "A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence ... ambitious and complex." --Washington Post "An unclassifiable medley of linked fictions and essays.... Reading it is like being a passenger on a long trip.... It's amusing, exciting.... It moves... to moments of intense interest and beauty." -- Wall Street Journal "Provide[s] food for thought about what makes us move and what makes us tick.... Travel may broaden the mind, but this travel-themed book stimulates it." -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune "This hypnotizing new novel about travel, movement, and the complexities of distance deserves a place on every bookshelf. It already brings with it heaps of praise--it won the Man Booker International Prize this year--but awards or no, readers should approach Flights with wide open minds and discover the book's profound meditations for themselves." -- Southern Living "Travel writing usually presents a linear narrative--as departures and returns easily correspond with beginnings and endings. But Tokarczuk complicates this. Her characters, like the book's episodic structure, resist neat demarcations. They prefer to wander in loops and circles...The book is like a map: including disparate parts not because they cause or connect to each other, but because their contours help clarify a wider, impersonal whole. In this way, Tokarczuk shows that even the loneliest traveler fits into a bigger scheme." -- Bookforum "[A] novel on the increasing mobility of 21st-century life, those who isolate themselves, who want to limit their movement and interactions with others, are only living half a life. Everybody is part of a worldwide network of beings, a worldwide live chain, dependent on people they will never meet for everyday necessities, whether they acknowledge it or not. ... Whereas what lingers of Sebald's works are the emotions he conjures up, what lingers of Tokarczuk are her ideas." --The Millions "This host of haunting narratives teases the mind and taunts the soul... exhilarating." --Library Journal, Praise for Olga Tolkarczuk and Flights : "A magnificent writer."" -- Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time "One among a very few signal European novelists of the past quarter-century." --The Economist "A household name in Poland and one of Europe''s major humanist writers, [with] echoes of W. G. Sebald [and] Milan Kundera, Tokarczuk inhabits a rebellious, playful register very much her own. . . . Flights is a passionate and enchantingly discursive plea for meaningful connectedness. . . . I can think of no better travel companion in these turbulent, fanatical times." --The Guardian "Every sentence lands with the artful cadence of a poet." -- Deborah Levy, author of Swimming Home "An ambitious work . . . Tokarczuk is a cheerful, garrulous narrator. Her casual style recalls the prose of Eula Biss or Susana Moreira Marques, and . . . Rebecca Solnit. . . . This is a book about rootlessness in the grandest sense-- which is to say it is a book about mortality. " -- The Times Literary Supplement "Tokarczuk's peerless travel guide is actually a guide to living...This is as brilliant and life-affirming as literature gets...After reading this book, you'll likely never see the world the same again. " -- The Saturday Paper "An extraordinary book that roams in space and time, and is lucid and full of curiosity. I wish I could write like her. " -- Irish Times, Praise for Flights : "[Tokarczuk] seems to pour the contents of her incandescent mind onto the page.... Some bits read like campfire tales -- stories of an inebriated, Moby-Dick -quoting ferryboat captain gone rogue on his daily route, or a foolish prince straight out of Arabian Nights .... Taken all together, Flights has the quality of a dream.... It's magical: electrifying, strange, and sensationally alive." --Entertainment Weekly "[There's] no better travel companion in these turbulent, fanatical times." --The Guardian " Flights functions more like a cabinet of curiosities, the kind which served as a precursor to natural history museums. Within drawers of different sizes, curious onlookers might find animal and botanical specimens, minerals, and man-made objects ... Flights is like opening drawer after drawer and discovering similar treasures... There is also a sense of the odd, of the surreal, right around the corner... for those who like traveling beyond the edges of the map." -- NPR "A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence ... ambitious and complex." --Washington Post "An unclassifiable medley of linked fictions and essays.... Reading it is like being a passenger on a long trip.... It's amusing, exciting.... It moves... to moments of intense interest and beauty." -- Wall Street Journal "Provide[s] food for thought about what makes us move and what makes us tick.... Travel may broaden the mind, but this travel-themed book stimulates it." -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune "This hypnotizing new novel about travel, movement, and the complexities of distance deserves a place on every bookshelf. It already brings with it heaps of praise--it won the Man Booker International Prize this year--but awards or no, readers should approach Flights with wide open minds and discover the book's profound meditations for themselves." -- Southern Living "Travel writing usually presents a linear narrative--as departures and returns easily correspond with beginnings and endings. But Tokarczuk complicates this. Her characters, like the book's episodic structure, resist neat demarcations. They prefer to wander in loops and circles...The book is like a map: including disparate parts not because they cause or connect to each other, but because their contours help clarify a wider, impersonal whole. In this way, Tokarczuk shows that even the loneliest traveler fits into a bigger scheme." -- Bookforum "[A] novel on the increasing mobility of 21st-century life, those who isolate themselves, who want to limit their movement and interactions with others, are only living half a life. Everybody is part of a worldwide network of beings, a worldwide live chain, dependent on people they will never meet for everyday necessities, whether they acknowledge it or not. ... Whereas what lingers of Sebald's works are the emotions he conjures up, what lingers of Tokarczuk are her ideas." --The Millions "This host of haunting narratives teases the mind and taunts the soul... exhilarating." --Library Journal
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal891.8/538
SynopsisWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE 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.
LC Classification NumberPG7179.O37B5413 2018
