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Flights is Olga Tokarczuk's fragmentary novel of travel, anatomy and migration, translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft. It won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize, shared between author and translator. Rather than a single plot, it braids short narratives and reflections: the anatomist Philip Verheyen and his amputated leg, a preserved eighteenth-century courtier, Chopin's heart carried from Paris to Warsaw, and modern travelers on Greek and Croatian islands. It suits readers who like essayistic, digressive European fiction in the vein of W.G. Sebald or Italo Calvino more than those who want a conventional story with a steady protagonist.
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Critics and readers treat Flights as a landmark of contemporary Polish fiction, praising Croft's translation and Tokarczuk's range. Many admire the interlocking fragments; others find the lack of a conventional plot and the shifting narrators hard going.
Flights is a novel by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft. It won the Man Booker International Prize in 2018. The book is about travel in the twenty-first century and about human anatomy, and it takes in life, death, motion and migration.
The novel interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth look at the human body. One story is set in the seventeenth century and follows the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew his own amputated leg. Another, from the eighteenth century, tells of a North African-born slave who became an Austrian courtier and was stuffed and put on display after his death.
In the nineteenth century, the book follows Chopin's heart on its covert journey from Paris to Warsaw. In the present day, a wife accompanies her much older husband as he teaches a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands. Another story follows a young husband whose wife and child vanish on a holiday on a Croatian island.
