![]() Her first book, Miastra w lustra ( Cities in Mirrors), a collection of poems, was published in 1989. Though Tokarczuk is an accomplished novelist, short-story writer, and two-time winner of Poland’s highest literary honor, the Nike, she is also a poet. With keen observation and wit, Flightstakes us from airports around the world where academics give mini lectures to museums that house “freaks” of nature-the two-headed and the unborn. In 116 pieces of writing, Tokarczuk crafts a novel about journeys and the human body. She continues, “In this case, the pilgrim is in pieces, broken down.” ![]() Each of my pilgrimages aims at some other pilgrim,” says the unnamed narrator of Flights, Olga Tokarczuk’s ninth novel, which won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. ![]()
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