And so as described in my book, it has very good and darker sides of this state of existence. But yes, I think woman crossing their forties, they become a part of the invisible world. It is something that is very native and so on and so on. (laughter) Then everyone paid attention to me and asked me what is going on, and then I had to explain that this is a very old, Polish manner of hair. Olga Tokarczuk: I was invisible until the moment I realized that it’s good to have dreadlocks. You’ve written eight novels, two collections of short stories-was this the kind of book that you could only write, given its scope and how much travel was involved, once you had had that experience of being invisible while traveling? I wonder if you could talk about that. John Freeman: Flights travels through space and time brilliantly, mysteriously. Literary Hub’s John Freeman spoke with her earlier this year about her novel Flights, onstage with translator Jennifer Croft. Olga Tokarczuk is one of Poland’s most celebrated and beloved authors, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize, as well as her country’s highest literary honor, the Nike.Olga Tokarczuk, alongside Peter Handke, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler.Įnchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, ‘Flights’ is a master storyteller’s answer.
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. 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. Winner of The Man Booker International Prizeįrom 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.Ĭhopin’s heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. Winner of The Nobel Prize® In Literature 2018
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