Flights
Olga Tokarczuk
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From the publisher
Flights is published here as a limited edition clothbound hardback as part of Fitzcarraldo Editions’ First Decade Collection, featuring marbled endpapers and signed and numbered bookplates.
Translated by Jennifer Croft
Flights is a novel interweaving reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion and migration. Chopin’s heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill 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. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveller, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. With her signature grace and insight, 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.
‘A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald.’ Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News
‘One among a very few signal European novelists of the past quarter-century.’ The Economist
‘Flights works like a dream does: with fragmentary trails that add up to a delightful reimagining of the novel itself.’ Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
Olga Tokarczuk is the author of nine novels, three short story collections and has been translated into forty-five languages. Her novel Flights won the 2018 International Booker Prize, in Jennifer Croft’s translation. In 2019, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Jennifer Croft is the recipient of Fulbright, PEN, and National Endowment for the Arts grants, as well as the Michael Henry Heim Prize, and her translations from Polish, Spanish, and Ukrainian have appeared in the New York Times, n+1, Electric Literature, The New Republic, BOMB, Guernica, and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She is a founding editor of The Buenos Aires Review.