A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. 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.

太古是个地方，它位于宇宙的中心。
倘若步子迈得快，从北至南走过太古，大概需要一个钟头的时间，从东至西需要的时间也一样。但是，倘若有人迈着徐缓的步子，仔细观察沿途所有的事物，并且动脑筋思考，以这样的速度绕着太古走一圈，此人就得花费一整天的时间。从清晨一直走到傍晚。
一个名为太古的地方，位于波兰偏远之地的虚构村落。它的四方边界由四位天使长守护：北面拉斐尔，南面加百列，西边米也勒，东边乌列尔。太古的边界有道看不见，且无法逾越的墙——那些自以为离开太古的人在墙前困梦，他们醒来后，反身回家，将梦当成了回忆。
禁烟在太古村的人们欲望本真，灵魂散发洪荒时代原始的气息，爱和恨同样强烈：伊齐多尔用他孤寂而蒙昧的一生爱着鲁塔——以身体喂养太古众多男人的麦穗儿和化身美男子的欧白立树，在夏夜交欢生下的女儿。
鲁塔看得见隐性的太古边界，听得见菌丝体心脏八十年一次的搏动，到得了太古的中心。鲁塔爱伊齐多尔，她在爱里久久地、久久地折磨着他。
人在爱欲之中，独生独死，独往独来。当鲁塔逾越了边界，前往遥远的温热的南方，伊齐多尔要如何从世界四个窗口的束缚中离开…
奥尔嘉·朵卡获借着八十四则以不同时间为题的小章节，断裂又连贯的呈现出一个虚构的村落长达八十年的人事变迁，从中映照出万物存在的情境。她轻盈，诗意，充满神话意味的书写宛如一场亘古大梦，梦中流淌着生命、爱情，和时间的记忆。

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."

In The Books of Jacob , Tokarczuk traverses the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in search of Jacob Frank, a highly controversial historical figure from the eighteenth century and the leader of a mysterious, heretical Jewish splinter group that converted at different times to both Islam and Catholicism. Examining Frank through the eyes of both his supporters and those who reviled him, Tokarczuk paints an intricate picture of a divisive yet charismatic man whose life highlights the complex narrative strands of history.

Nowa, bardzo oczekiwana powiesc, której pisarka poswiecila ostatnie trzy lata pracy. "Bieguni" to ksiazka odwazna, w której Olga Tokarczuk opowiada o sobie i o swoim widzeniu swiata.

A subversive, entertaining noir novel from the winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead takes place in a remote Polish village, where Janina, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, she becomes involved in the investigation. Janina is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s unconventional, believing in the stars, and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken.
Filled with wonderful characters like Maladroit, Big Foot, Black Coat, Dizzy and Boros, this subversive, entertaining noir novel, by ‘one of Europe’s major humanist writers’ (Guardian), offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalised people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination—and getting away with murder.

nspirujaca, glosno dyskutowana powiesc. Thriller moralny z metafizyczna zagadka, zaskakujaca pod kazdym wzgledem. Zima piekna Kotlina Klodzka jest miejscem malo przyjaznym i opustoszalym. Wsrod nielicznych mieszkancow pozostala Janina Duszejko - milosniczka astrologii, ktora w wolnych chwilach doglada domow nieobecnych sasiadow i tlumaczy poezje Blake'a. Niespodziewanie przez te spokojna okolice przetacza sie fala morderstw, ktorych ofiarami padaja mysliwi. Czy to mozliwe, by - jak sugeruje Duszejko - to zwierzeta zaczely czyhac na zycie swoich oprawcow? Wszak Blake pisal: "Blakajaca sie Sarna po lesie / Ludzkiej Duszy niepokoj niesie" ...

The town of Nowa Ruda and its surrounding countryside is a place of shifting identities. Polish now, it has been German, Czech and Austro-Hungarian among other nationalities in the past.Here, at the hear of Europe, where borders move and languages and their speakers come and go, ordinary ives arenot as simple as they appear. When the narrator and her husband settle in the area, she soon discovers that the locals all have their secrets....

Najbardziej oczekiwana ksiazka roku! Nowa epicka powiesc Olgi Tokarczuk! Rok 1752. Do Rohatyna na Podolu przybywaja kasztelanowa Katarzyna Kossakowska i towarzyszaca jej poetka Elzbieta Druzbacka. Jednym z gosci na powitalnej kolacji jest miejscowy proboszcz Benedykt Chmielowski, autor pierwszej polskiej encyklopedii. Ksiadz i poetka, osoby rozmilowane w ksiegach, szybko znajduja wspolny jezyk - rozpoczynaja rozmowe, ktora pozniej kontynuowac beda w listach. Nieco pozniej, takze na Podolu, pojawia sie mlody, przystojny i charyzmatyczny Zyd - Jakub Lejbowicz Frank. Tajemniczy przybysz z odleglej Smyrny zaczyna glosic idee, ktore szybko dziela spolecznosc zydowska. Dla jednych heretyk, dla innych zbawca juz niebawem ma wokol siebie krag oddanych sobie uczniow, zas wywolany przezen ferment moze odmienic bieg historii. Niemal tysiac stron, kilkadziesiat watkow i postaci - Ksiegi Jakubowe imponuja literackim rozmachem, wieloscia poziomow i mozliwych interpretacji. Olga Tokarczuk pelnymi garsciami czerpie z tradycji powiesci historycznej, poszerzajac jednoczesnie jej granice gatunkowe. Z ogromna dbaloscia o szczegoly przedstawia realia epoki, architekture, ubiory, zapachy. Odwiedzamy szlacheckie dwory, katolickie plebanie i zydowskie domostwa, rozmodlone i zanurzone w lekturze tajemniczych pism. Na oczach czytelnikow pisarka tka obraz dawnej Polski, w ktorej egzystowaly obok siebie chrzescijanstwo, judaizm, a takze islam. Ksiegi Jakubowe to nie tylko powiesc o przeszlosci. Mozna ja czytac rowniez jako refleksyjne, momentami mistyczne dzielo o samej historii, jej zakretach i trybach, ktore decyduja o losach calych narodow. To wlasnie w polowie XVIII wieku, u progu Oswiecenia i przed rozbiorami, wybitna pisarka poszukuje odpowiedzi na pytania o dzisiejszy ksztalt naszej czesci Europy.

Akcja rozgrywa sie w Kotlinie Klodzkiej. Glowna bohaterka jest Janina Duszejko - kiedys inzynier mostow, dzis wiejska nauczycielka angielskiego, geografii i dozorczyni domow letniskowych. Jej pasja jest astrologia, a wielka miloscia wszelkie zwierzeta.

FLIGHTS, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death. In the nineteenth century, we follow Chopin's heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw. In the present we have the trials of a wife accompanying her much older husband as he teaches a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands, and the harrowing story of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish on a holiday on a Croatian island. With her signature grace and insight, Olga Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.

Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, a region that has at times been part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia. When the narrator of Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night moves into the area, she discovers that everyone - and everything - has a story. With the help of Martha, her enigmatic neighbor, she collects these stories, and what emerges is the message that the history of any place - no matter how humble - is limitless and universal.
Tokarczuk's richly imagined novel is an epic of a small place. A best-seller in Poland, House of Day, House of Night is the English-language debut of one of Europe's best young writers.

Uhonorowana Literacka Nagroda Nike, jedna z najglosniejszych i najszerzej komentowanych powiesci ostatnich lat. Co mamy wspolnego z biegunami - prawoslawnym odlamem starowiercow, ludzmi, ktorzy zlo oswajaja ruchem? Ile jest w nas z biegunow? Od dawnych sultanskich palacow przez siedemnastowieczne gabinety osobliwosci po wspolczesne hale odlotow - Olga Tokarczuk zabiera czytelnikow w niezwykla podroz przez rozne miejsca i czasy. Zaprasza do wspolnego oswajania migotliwej, fragmentarycznej rzeczywistosci, do porzucania utartych szlakow. Ta powiesc nie ma granic - dzieje sie na calym swiecie. "Tokarczuk udalo sie w sposob niezwykly, inteligentny i wrazliwy przedstawic otaczajacy nas swiat. Fascynujaca powiesc!" TV ORF "Bohaterami tej ksiazki sa nomadzi i koczownicy, nieprzywiazani do wlasnych korzeni. Kobiety wozace w torebkach zapasowe szczoteczki do zebow na wypadek naglej podrozy i mezczyzni umiejacy spakowac caly swoj dobytek w 10 minut, zawsze gotowi do drogi. Proza Olgi Tokarczuk przekonuje, iz poczucie ladu wszechswiata dostepne jest kazdemu, o ile tylko podrozuje". Marta Cuber, "Polityka" "Oryginalna, pasjonujaca i znakomicie napisana". "Le Figaro"

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the long, dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and serving as caretaker for the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is only amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. She's devastated when her two beloved dogs disappear. Then her neighbor, Bigfoot, turns up dead. As corpses pile up in increasingly strange circumstances, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . .

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 remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . .
A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale,
is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?

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.
“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 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.”
Winner of the Bologna Ragazzi Award, Special Mention 2018, Prix de l’Union Internationale pour les Livres de Jeunesse (IBBY), The White Raven (IJB Munich), and the Łódź Design Festival Award.

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . .
A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale,
is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?
Duration: 11 hours 39 minutes.