![]() ![]() "I wrote this book when the world was looking to be open for everybody," she said. Tokarczuk said when she began writing Flights, more than a dozen years ago, she set out to describe a world very different from the one we are living in now. Critics have compared Tokarczuk's non-linear novels and short stories, which are often punctuated by mysterious maps and diagrams, to the work of celebrated European authors such as W.G. It is made up of 116 vignettes – fiction and non-fiction – ranging from a Polish man's desperate search for his wife and child after they disappear during a vacation in Croatia, to a historical account of Chopin's heart being smuggled into Warsaw beneath his sister's skirt. In May, Tokarczuk won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel Flights, which treats travel as a uniquely corporeal experience. Olga Tokarczuk spent time travelling alone during the period when she wrote Flights. ![]()
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