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"Told by the dead, supplemented by the author, drawing from a range of books, and aided by imagination, the which being the greatest natural gift of any person. That the wise might have it for a record, that my compatriots reflect, laypersons gain some ...

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." Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author ofSecondhand Time

"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence....

Ambitious and complex." Washington Post

In September 1913, a young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone – or something – seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world.

Little does the newcomer...

Eryk hat es in den hohen Norden verschlagen, wo er als Steuermann auf einer kleinen Fa hre die immer gleiche Route fa hrt, bis er irgendwann Kurs aufs offene Meer nimmt. Eine Ich-Erza hlerin ist unentwegt auf Wanderschaft - zu Fuß, im Auto, im Flugzeug oder gar in Gedanken. Chopins Schwester, die ihren Bruder abgo ttisch geliebt hat, begleitet sein Herz auf eine letzte Reise ...
Unrast ist ein Roman u ber die Sehnsucht, sich in der Welt zu verlieren, ein Roman u ber das Reisen und dabei selbst wie eine Reise: mit unza hligen Orten und Menschen, die einem ans Herz wachsen...

FLIGHTS, 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 have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death. In the nineteenth...