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.
