Flights
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018Flights, 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 follo…
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Weitere Autoren: Croft, Jennifer (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-910695-44-9
- EAN: 9781910695449
- Produktnummer: 23006386
- Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 424 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'597 KB
Über den Autor
Olga Tokarczuk is one of Poland's best and most beloved authors. In 2015 she received the Brueckepreis and the prestigious annual literary award from Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, as well as Poland's highest literary honor, the Nike, and the Nike Readers' Prize. Tokarczuk also received a Nike in 2009 for Flights. She is the author of eight novels and two short story collections, and has been translated into a dozen languages.
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