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020			_a9781910695432 _q(pbk.)
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050			_aPG7179.O37 _bF55 2020
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100	1		_aTokarczuk, Olga, _d1962- _eauthor. _917623
240	1	0	_aBieguni. _lEnglish
245	1	0	_aFlights / _cOlga Tokarczuk ; translated by Jennifer Croft.
264		1	_aLondon, United Kingdom : _bFitzcarraldo Editions, _c2020
300			_a411 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c20 cm
336			_atext
501			_aP.B
520			_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.
546			_aTranslated from the Polish.
650		0	_aHuman body _vFiction. _918955
650		0	_aTravel _vFiction. _918956
650		7	_aHuman body.
650		7	_aTravel.
655		7	_aFiction.
700	1		_aCroft, Jennifer _c(Translator), _etranslator. _918957
910			_a2030
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