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020			_a9781910695821
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bTOK
100			_aTokarczuk,Olga
245			_aFLIGHTS
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260			_aLondon _bFitzcarraldo Editions _c2017/01/01
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500			_aFLIGHTS, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death. In the nineteenth century, we follow Chopin's heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw. In the present we have the trials of a wife accompanying her much older husband as he teaches a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands, and the harrowing story of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish on a holiday on a Croatian island. With her signature grace and insight, Olga Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.
650			_aFiction
650			_aTravel -- Fiction.
650			_aHuman body -- Fiction.
650			_aPsychological fiction
650			_aRoad fiction
650			_aOld Believers
650			_atranslated from Polish fiction
700			_aCroft, Jennifer (tr.)
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