Olga Tokarczuk has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Book International Prize, among many other honors. She is the author of a dozen works of fiction, two collections of essays, and a children’s book; her work has been translated into fifty languages.
Praise for Flights:
"What’s in a novel? This Man Booker International Prize winner
reads like a rigorous response to that question in the best, most
edifying (and maddening) way…Magnificently translated from the
Polish by Jennifer Croft, Flights has the scattered intimate
quality of a personal diary, its magic wedded to its singularity.
It’s an unexpected, funny journey into that most elusive of places
— the human condition." –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”
“A beautifully fragmented look at man’s longing for permanence …
ambitious and complex.” —Washington Post
“It’s a busy, beautiful vexation, this novel, a quiver full of
fables of pilgrims and pilgrimages, and the reasons — the hidden,
the brave, the foolhardy — we venture forth into the world …In
Jennifer Croft’s assured translation, each self-enclosed account is
tightly conceived and elegantly modulated, the language balletic,
unforced.” —The New York Times
“A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald.” –Annie Proulx
“Tokarczuk’s discerning eye shakes things up, in the same way that
her book scrambles conventional forms... Like her characters,
our narrator is always on the move, and is always noticing and
theorizing, often brilliantly.” —The New Yorker
“There's no better travel companion in these turbulent, fanatical
times.” —The Guardian
“Dive in beyond physical place to the mind of the traveler in this
experimental collection of interwoven stories, essays, and musings
as delightfully meandering as wanderlust itself.” –Fodor’s
Travels
“Flights works like a dream does: with fragmentary trails that
add up to a delightful reimagining of the novel itself.”—Marlon
James
“This hypnotizing new novel about travel, movement, and the
complexities of distance deserves a place on every
bookshelf.” —Southern Living
“Provides 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
“Take the time to settle into this unconventional narrative that is
by turns startling, moving and profound.” –Dallas Morning
News
“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
“A disorienting, intelligent, and unforgettable book.” –Bustle
“Prescient, provocative, and furiously comic.” —The New
Statesman
“An expansive, probing and enigmatic novel of ideas…Chapters range
from a few sentences to dozens of pages, creating a kaleidoscope of
perspectives on the mutability and movement of humanity.”
–amNewYork
“A graceful and philosophic meditation on travel.” –Newsday
“A select few novels possess the wonder of music, and this is one
of them. No two readers will experience it exactly the same way.
Flights is an international, mercurial, and always generous book,
to be endlessly revisited. Like a glorious, charmingly impertinent
travel companion, it reflects, challenges, and rewards.” –Los
Angeles Review of Books
“An intellectual revelation… Flights seeks out bridges between the
concepts of cosmopolitanism and cultural hybridity; between
discoveries of affection and curiosity toward unknown cultures, and
toward the intrinsic multiplicity of one’s own place of origin.”
–Boston Review
“Flights is epic in its scope and mission. … [The novel] reads as a
sprawling, surreal meditation on what it is to be alive in an
increasingly transient world.” –Vox
“If a strictly linear narrative structure is obligatory to your
definition of what makes for a ‘good book,’ I’d encourage you to
set that requirement aside for a bit and consider this 2018 Booker
Prize winner. … Themes and patterns will begin to emerge of lives
and loves and a rocket ship ride through the swirl of stars that is
us. An added bonus: Jennifer Croft’s translation (from Polish) is a
joy to read and a template for a translation master class.” –The
Millions
“Deftly explores, in limpid, captivating vignettes, the spaces we
inhabit—bodies, geographies, the expanse of the page—and the loves,
fears, and wonder that inhabit us.” –Literary Hub
“An indisputable masterpiece.” –Publishers Weekly, starred
review
“This host of haunting narratives teases the mind and taunts the
soul... exhilarating.” —Library Journal
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