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.
