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Call Number: Fiction / Tokarczuk, Olga, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Tokarczuk, Olga
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Tokarczuk, Olga	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Tokarczuk, Olga	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Tokarczuk, Olga	4-week checkout	On Shelf

A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.
Contents: Here I am. -- World in your head. -- Your head in the world. -- Syndrome. -- Cabinet of curiosities. -- Seeing is knowing. -- Seven years of trips. -- Guidance from Cioran. -- Kunicki: water (I). -- Benedictus, quivenit.

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SO BEAUTIFUL. submitted by AGAPHD on June 20, 2020, 10:19pm this is so beautiful. the language is stunning! highly recommended.