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Nobel Prize and Booker Prize Winner

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx)

"A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time

"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." — Washington Post


From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. 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.
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At times, the story lines were absolutely riveting and at other times, I was lost and uninterested. Overall, it was an interesting listen and yet with so many unanswered questions and details that lead nowhere, the ending fell flat.

OK

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The book reveals an extraordinary knowledge about the World in general and a really deep research on the themes considered in the book. Absolutely love it. I have previously read the book in Polish Bieguni and in English Flights. Translation is amazingly sensible.Thank you for letting me listen to it . i have refreshed my attachment to the book.

Extraordinary

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I always read a novel/short story by a contemporary writer in between classic masterpieces, and therefore I’m quite a difficult reader to impress as such true masters as Joyce and Proust set the bar too high. That’s why I could not give Flights more than 3 stars. The book consists of 118 chapters ranging from mostly a few-min audios to few 1-hour ones.
I found a few chapters very interesting but the rest were mostly prosaic.

No regrets but not impressed either.

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A new author for me. I can see why she won the International Booker prize. Reminds me of Lincoln in the Bardo. Disjointed tales that all come together in the end.

Fabulous story

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The way the story is told and described is in so many details; more than I have ever seen anything detailed. The storyline however did not really get to me. Very scattered and the characters are not attaching.

Amazing details of anything

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