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 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.
