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Tokarczuk replaces conventional plot with a constellation of narratives whose form enacts the restless movement it studies.
A celebrated work
Flights
Olga Tokarczuk2018 selection · Translated fiction
Flights
A mobile narrator moves among airports, museums, maps, and stories of travelers, anatomists, refugees, and preserved bodies. The novel's fragments connect physical movement with efforts to understand, document, and evade the mortal body.
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You enjoy essayistic, fragmented fiction about travel, anatomy, and human curiosity.
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