Flights
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-2018
Book
'Flights', which was awarded Poland's biggest literary prize in 2008, is a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the real Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg, discovering in so doing the Achilles tendon.
Main title:
Flights / Olga Tokarczuk ; tr. Jennifer Croft.
Author:
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-, authorCroft, Jennifer (Translator), translator
Work:
Imprint:
London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018.
Collation:
410 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Polish.
Awards:
Man Booker International Prize 2018
ISBN:
9781910695821 (pbk)
Dewey class:
891.8538FICTION
Language:
EnglishPolish
Added title:
BRN:
2736046