House of Day, House of Night

A woman settles in a remote Polish village. It has few inhabitants, now, but it teems with the stories of its living and its dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There’s the man whose death—with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czech—was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these shards piece together not only a history but a cosmology.

Another brilliant ‘constellation novel’ in the mode of her International Booker Prize–winning Flights, House of Day, House of Night reminds us that the story of any place, no matter how humble, is boundless.

PRAISE:

‘Tokarczuk’s witty, accessible prose propels you forward.’ Vogue
‘Just one of those books you need to read.’ Lit Hub
‘Pulses with the power of dreams.’ Shelf Awareness

‘A book like no other’ [5 stars] Courier-Mail

‘A deft, poetic, moving description of the life of a woman living in the haunted, rural borderlands between Poland and the Czech Republic.’ Michael Cronin, Irish Times

House of Day, House of Night is packed with chewy philosophical ideas and spellbinding images.’ Australian

'The language in this novel is incredible. I found myself frequently putting the book down for a moment just to think about a particular word or phrase. This is my first Tokarczuk novel and I am thrilled to discover a writing style I love so much. I am going to read all Tokarczuk’s work that I can get my hands on.’ Readings Monthly

‘Darkly humorous, deadly serious, and with a quirky cast of characters that will stay with you forever, this is definitely not to be missed.’ Dua Lipa on Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

‘The pleasures of Tokarczuk’s prose are in the neat little tricks of noticing, veering into the supernatural and strange.’ Saturday Paper
‘I was utterly enraptured by the mushrooming magic of Tokarczuk’s landscape…’ Big Issue