Olga Tokarczuk

Finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, and autonomy and fate.

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time "A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." — Washington Post 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. 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 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. 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. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.

Flights

The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas--and a new unrest--begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumors of his sect's secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs. The story of Frank--a real historical figure around whom mystery and controversy swirl to this day--is the perfect canvas for the genius and unparalleled reach of Olga Tokarczuk. Narrated through the perspectives of his contemporaries--those who revere him, those who revile him, the friend who betrays him, the lone woman who sees him for what he is--The Books of Jacob captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence.

Across Seven Borders, Five Languages, and Three Major Religions, Not Counting the Minor Sects. Told by the Dead, Supplemented by the Author, Drawing from a Range of Books, and Aided by Imagination, the which Being the Greatest Natural Gift of Any Person. That the Wise Might Have it for a Record, that My Compatriots Reflect, Laypersons Gain Some Understanding, and Melancholy Souls Obtain Some Slight Enjoyment

The Books of Jacob

Tokarczuk's third novel, Primeval and Other Times was awarded the Passport Prize in 1996 And The Koscielski Prize in 1997, which established the author as one of the leading voices in Polish letters. it is set in the mythical village of Primeval in the very heart of Poland, which is populated by eccentric, archetypal characters. The village, a microcosm of Europe, Is guarded by four archangels, from whose perspective the novel chronicles the lives of Primeval's inhabitants over the course of the feral 20th century. In prose that is forceful and direct, The narrative follows Poland's tortured political history from 1914 To The contemporary era And The episodic brutality that is visited on ordinary village life. Yet Primeval and Other Times is a novel of universal dimension that does not dwell on the parochial. A stylized fable as well as epic allegory about the inexorable grind of time, The clash between modernity (the masculine) and nature (the feminine), it has been translated into most European languages. Tokarczuk has said of the novel: "I always wanted to write a book such as this. One that creates and describes a world. it is the story of a world that, like all things living, Is born, develops, and then dies." Kitchens, bedrooms, childhood memories, dreams and insomnia, reminiscences, and amnesia - these are part of the existential and acoustic spaces from which the voices of Tokarczuk's tale come, her "boxes in boxes."

Primeval and Other Times

Sür Pullugunu Ölülerin Kemikleri Üzerinde

The town of Nowa Ruda and the surrounding countryside is a place of shifting identities.

House of Day, House of Night

The only book in English for readers of all ages by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Olga Tokarczuk is a beautifully illustrated meditation on the fullness of life. Bologna Ragazzi Award, Special Mention 2018 Prix de l'Union Internationale pour les Livres de Jeunesse (IBBY) The White Raven (IJB Munich) Łódź Design Festival Award "Once upon a time there was a man who worked very hard and very quickly, and who had left his soul far behind him long ago. In fact his life was all right without his soul--he slept, ate, worked, drove a car and even played tennis. But sometimes he felt as if the world around him were flat, as if he were moving across a smooth page in a math book that was covered in evenly spaced squares... " --from The Lost Soul The Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflection on our capacity to live in peace with ourselves, to remain patient, attentive to the world. It is a story that beautifully weaves together the voice of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and the finely detailed pen-and-ink drawings of illustrator Joanna Concejo, who together create a parallel narrative universe full of secrets, evocative of another time. Here a man has forgotten what makes his heart feel full. He moves to a house away from all that is familiar to him to wait for his soul to return. The Lost Soul is a sublime album, a rare delicacy that will delight readers young and old. "You must find a place of your own, sit there quietly and wait for your soul."

The Lost Soul

In September 1913, Mieczysław Wojnicz, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and to discuss the great issues of the day: Will there be war? Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women inherently inferior?

Meanwhile, disturbing things are beginning to happen in the guesthouse and its surroundings. As stories of shocking events in the nearby highlands reach the men, a sense of dread builds. Someone – or something – seems to be watching them and attempting to infiltrate their world. Little does Mieczysław realize, as he attempts to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target.

A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, blending horror story, comedy, folklore and feminist parable with brilliant storytelling.

A Health Resort Horror Story

The Empusium

Bieguni

Conduz o teu arado sobre os ossos dos mortos

Kadimzamanlar ve Diger Vakitler

A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ” “Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post “Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade-defining book akin to Bolaño’s 2666.” –AV Club “Sophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit. . . The comedy in this novel blends, as it does in life, with genuine tragedy.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, AND NPR The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumors of his sect’s secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs. The story of Frank—a real historical figure around whom mystery and controversy swirl to this day—is the perfect canvas for the genius and unparalleled reach of Olga Tokarczuk. Narrated through the perspectives of his contemporaries—those who revere him, those who revile him, the friend who betrays him, the lone woman who sees him for what he is—The Books of Jacob captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence. In a nod to books written in Hebrew, The Books of Jacob is paginated in reverse, beginning on p. 955 and ending on p. 1 – but read traditionally, front cover to back.

A Novel

Jaromír 99

Krimipastiche. Den pensionerede lærerinde Janina Duszejko bor i en fjern landsby nær Tjekkiet. Hun læser William Blake, dyrker astrologi og er fanatisk modstander af jagt. En vinter dræbes det ene menneske efter det andet, og der er formodning om, at dødsfaldene skyldes dyr. Janina undersøger sagen på sin egen måde, mens politiet anser hende for harmløs og ekcentrisk

Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych

Subversivo, macabro e discutindo temas como mundo natural e civilização, este livro parte de uma história de crime e investigação convencional para se converter numa espécie de suspense existencial. “Uma das grandes vozes humanistas da Europa”, segundo o jornal The Guardian, Olga Tokarczuk oferece um romance instigante sobre temas como loucura, injustiça e direitos dos animais.

Sobre os ossos dos mortos

Opowiadania bizarne

Guida il tuo carro sulle ossa dei morti

Styr din plogög över de dödas ben

Im Sommer tummeln sich wohlhabende Städter auf dem Hochplateau an der polnisch-tschechischen Grenze. Im Winter fliehen die allermeisten Einwohner den windumtosten Ort. An den langen dunklen Tagen widmet sich Janina Duszejko der Astrologie und der Lyrik des von ihr verehrten William Blake. Man hält die ältere Dame für verschroben, wenn nicht gar für verrückt, auch weil sie die Gesellschaft von Tieren der von Menschen vorzieht. Dann gibt es einen Toten. Janinas Nachbar Bigfoot ist grausam erstickt: In seiner Kehle steckt der Knochen eines Rehs. Und es bleibt nicht bei einer Leiche. Janina ermittelt auf eigene Faust. Kriminalfall, philosophischer Essay, Fabel, literarisches Spiel - auf ebenso komische wie ergreifende Weise zeigen Olga Tokarczuk und ihre hinreißende Heldin, wie sehr es unserer Gesellschaft an Respekt mangelt, ob der Natur und den Tieren oder jenen Menschen gegenüber, die am Rande stehen.

Gesang der Fledermäuse

Czuły narrator

Al principio de Los errantes, la narradora esboza un autorretrato que es también una poética: «A todas luces yo carecía de ese gen que hace que en cuanto se detiene uno en un lugar por un tiempo más o menos largo, enseguida eche raíces. (…) Mi energía es generada por el movimiento: el vaivén de los autobuses, el traqueteo de los trenes, el rugido de los motores de avión, el balanceo de los ferrys.» Inquieta como ella, esta novela no se detiene ni un momento: en bus, avión, tren y ferry, la acompaña a saltos de país en país, de tiempo en tiempo, de historia en historia. Un libro inquieto, pues, y no pocas veces inquietante, como buena parte de los relatos que contiene: «historias incompletas, cuentos oníricos» subsumidos en un libérrimo cuaderno de viaje hecho de excursos, apuntes, narraciones y recuerdos que en muchos casos tienen como tema el viaje mismo: así, el relato de Kunicki, que, en plenas vacaciones, tendrá que enfrentarse a la desaparición de su esposa y su hijo, y a su reaparición enloquecedoramente enigmática. O el del gélido doctor Blau, taxidermista, que visita a la viuda de un ilustre colega con la intención de estudiar su laboratorio. También está el de Ánnushka, obsesionada por comprender los incomprensibles juramentos que profiere una pedigüeña en la estación de metro. O el de la bióloga que vuelve a su país para reencontrarse con su primer amor, ahora agonizante. Y, en medio de todos ellos, el relato real de cómo el corazón de Chopin llegó a Polonia escondido en un tarro de alcohol en las enaguas de su hermana; o el del anatomista flamenco Philip Verheyen, que escribía cartas a su pierna amputada y disecada; cartas, en fin, como las que le mandaba Joséphine Soliman al emperador Francisco I de Austria para recuperar el cuerpo de su padre, disecado como la pierna de Verheyen e infamantemente expuesto en la corte donde había servido en vida… Y así, entre corazones, piernas y cuerpos, Los errantes, una novela inquieta e inquietante, móvil y más que frecuentemente perturbadora, se revela también como una novela esencialmente física: en ella se habla del cuerpo, sí, pero también del mundo, y de las estrategias siempre insuficientes (la ciencia, los mapas) con las que intentamos cartografiar lo existente, apresar lo inasible. Como las galerías de curiosidades que su autora gusta de visitar, Los errantes, galardonada con el Premio Man Booker Internacional, contiene «lo raro e irrepetible, lo insólito y monstruoso», y lo expone en un despliegue de inventiva cuya nómada libertad formal oculta una calculadísima coherencia temática: he aquí una novela única, ligera y honda a la vez, que indaga en las posibilidades del formato como los exploradores más audaces.

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