“Bewitching … Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller.” — The New York Times A novel about the
rich stories of small places from the Nobel Prize–winning New York Times bestselling author
of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead A woman settles in a
remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants but it teems with the
stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek who discovers that he shares
his body with a bird and Franz Frost whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered
planet. There’s the man whose death – with one leg on the Polish side one on the Czech—was an
international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago
they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints these shards
piece together not only a history but a cosmology. Another brilliant “constellation novel” in
the mode of Tokarczuk’s International Booker Prize-winning Flights House of Day House of
Night reminds us that the story of any place no matter how humble is boundless.
