9781910695821 - Flights: Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018 von Tokarczuk, Olga (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuks 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 Chopins 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. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Fitzcarraldo printing. At first glance, a very good-looking copy indeed, but there are a couple of fingernail indents to the fore-edge: one is tiny, the other is visible as a little ripple at the very outer edge of approx. pp.301-338. There is also a little blue offset to the fore-edge, & light wear around the edge of the wraps.