Olga Tokarczuk 
Flights [EPUB ebook] 

Flights, 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.

About the author

 Jennifer Croft was awarded the International Booker Prize Prize in 2018 and a National Book Award Finalist for her translation from Polish of Olga Tokarczuk’s  Flights . She is the recipient of Fulbright, PEN, Mac Dowell, and National Endowment for the Arts grants and fellowships, as well as the inaugural Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation and a Tin House Workshop Scholarship for her memoir  Homesick . She holds a Ph D from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of Iowa. She is a founding editor of  t he  Buenos Aires Review  and has published her own work and numerous translations in the  New York Times , the  Los Angeles Review of Books ,   Granta ,   VICE ,   n+1 ,   Electric Literature ,   Lit Hub ,   BOMB ,   Guernica , the  New Republic , the  Guardian , the  Chicago Tribune , and elsewhere. She currently divides her time between Buenos Aires and Los Angeles.