Flights
‘Tokarczuk’s peerless travel guide is actually a guide to living. Every word, observation, reflection and story embraces the importance of staying mobile in thought as much as in being…This is as brilliant and life-affirming as literature gets.’
Saturday Paper
‘A novel in essays, a world-exploration in words, a soaring journey across space and through time.’
Nicolas Rothwell
'Tokarczuk is one of Europe’s most daring and original writers, and this astonishing performance is her glittering, bravura entry in the literature of ideas...Flights is an international, mercurial, and always generous book, to be endlessly revisited.'
Los Angeles Review of Books
‘In the vein of WG Sebald [Flights] knits together snippets of fiction, narrative and reflection to meditate on human anatomy and the meaning of travel: this is a delicate, ingenious book that is constantly making new connections.’
Justine Jordan, Guardian
‘a profound meditation on time, mythology, the self and human anatomy...[W]e drift along happily on her flights of fancy, as her travels across space give way to journeys through history and deep into the psyche. Jennifer Croft's bump-free translation only adds to the reader's pleasure.’
Chris Moss, Prospect Magazine
‘Flights is a passionate and enchantingly discursive plea for meaningful connectedness.’
Kapka Kassabova, Guardian
‘Flights could almost be an inventory of the ways narrative can serve a writer short of, and beyond, telling a story.’
Adam Mars-Jones, London Review of Books
‘It will make you want to quit your job, shed your identity, get on a plane, get on another, stay moving and see everything of this world that you can.’
Powell’s
‘Tokarczuk’s approach, like Melville’s, is encyclopedic and multiform. She turns nothing away...Her discerning eye shakes things up, in the same way that her book scrambles conventional forms.’
New Yorker
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