Many consider Tokarczuk to be the most important Polish writer of her generation and Flights is one of those rare books that seems to conjure life itself out of the air. You will never read anything like this extraordinary, utterly original, mind-expanding book. Thrilling characters and stories abound: the Russian sect who escape the devil by remaining constantly in motion the anatomist Verheyen who writes letters to his amputated leg the story of Chopin’s heart as it makes its journey from Paris to Warsaw, stored in a tightly sealed jar beneath his sister’s skirt the quest of a Polish woman who emigrated to New Zealand as a teen but must now return in order to poison her terminally ill high-school sweetheart… Boston Review Flights is epic in its scope and mission. Olga Tokarczuk brilliantly connects travel with spellbinding anecdotes about anatomy, about life and death, about the very nature of humankind. Flights seeks out bridges between the concepts of cosmopolitanism and cultural hybridity between discoveries of affection and curiosity toward unknown cultures, and toward the intrinsic multiplicity of one’s own place of origin. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. Flights is a series of imaginative and mesmerising meditations on travel in all its forms, not only the philosophy and meaning of travel, but also fascinating anecdotes that take us out of ourselves, and back to ourselves. Flights (Tocarczuk) From 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.

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