Olga Tokarczuk is the 2018 Nobel Prize laureate in literature. The novel has received two prestigious literary awards: the Nike Award in 2008 and the International Booker Prize in 2018. "Flights" is a kind of traveler's bible. The novel consists of the author's travel notes as well as fictional stories. Where are we from?
Where did we come here from?
Where are we going?
In this novel by one of the world's most original writers, Olga Tokarczuk, reflections on travel are interwoven with mysterious stories connected by themes of death, movement, the prolongation of life, and the mystery of the human body. We are all travelers in this world: some wander with a purpose, some without. Some move through time, others through space. What does it mean to be a wayfarer, a traveler, a "flight"? Olga Tokarczuk's mesmerizing and imaginative novel is a true masterpiece.
Author: Olga Tokarczuk
Translation: Irina Adelgeym
Pages: 384 (newsprint). Hardcover
Dimensions: 206x132x23 mm
