Flights

Praise for Olga Tokarczuk and Flights

‘A novel in essays, a world-exploration in words, a soaring journey across space and through time.’ Nicolas Rothwell

‘Tokarczuk is interested in what connects the human soul and body. It is a leitmotif that… weaves the text’s different strands—of fiction, memoir and essay—into a whole.’ Spectator

‘A magnificent writer.’ Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate in Literature, 2015

‘One among a very few signal European novelists of the past quarter-century.’ Economist

‘Reading Flights is like finally hearing from a weird old best friend you lost touch with years ago and assumed was gone forever because people that amazing and inventive just don’t last. Wrong—they were off rediscovering the world on your behalf, just as Olga Tokarczuk does.’ Toby Litt, author of Hospital

‘I have always considered Tokarczuk a person of great literary abilities. With Flights I have my proof. This is one of the most important Polish books I have read for years.’ Jerzy Sosnowski

‘Olga Tokarczuk is a household name in Poland and one of Europe’s major humanist writers, working here in the continental tradition of the “thinking” or essayistic novel. Flights has echoes of W.G. Sebald, Milan Kundera, Danilo Kiš and Dubravka Ugrešić, but Tokarzcuk inhabits a rebellious, playful register very much her own… Flights is a passionate and enchantingly discursive plea for meaningful connectedness… Hotels on the continent would do well to have a copy of Flights on the bedside table. I can think of no better travel companion in these turbulent, fanatical times.’ Guardian