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27: 350: 354:(4.0 out of 5) based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying, "Those willing to make the effort will find a nonlinear "novel of intuitions as much as ideas, a cacophony of voices and stories... which meander between the profound and the facetious, the mysterious and the ordinary, and whose true register remains one of glorious ambiguity" (Guardian)." 345: 340: 335: 330: 429:, said "we loved the voice of the narrative – it's one that moves from wit and gleeful mischief to real emotional texture and has the ability to create character very quickly, with interesting digression and speculation." 253:
Set between the 17th and 21st centuries, the novel is a "philosophical rumination on modern-day travel". It is structured as a series of vignettes, some fictional, and some based on fact – among them that of the
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The novel is split into 116 short pieces, some only one sentence long, others as long as 31 pages. These vignettes are all narrated by the same "nameless female traveller".
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described it as "extraordinary" and "a passionate and enchantingly discursive plea for meaningful connectedness". Tokarczuk's writing in
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reported "rave" reviews from critics based on 19 critic reviews with 10 being "rave" and 9 being "positive". On
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stated that the book was "a welcome introduction to a major author and a pleasure for fans of contemporary
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in 2018, marking the first time a Polish author received the award. The chair of the judging panel,
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Nov/Dec 2018 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a
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said of Tokarczuk's narrator that she is "coolly evasive in the way of
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FLIGHTS by Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft | Kirkus Reviews
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In 2018, the English translation of the book won the
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Olga Tokarczuk
Jennifer Croft
Fiction
Polish
English
Wydawnictwo Literackie
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Man Booker International Prize
Nike Award
ISBN
1910695432
Polish
lit.
fragmentary novel
Olga Tokarczuk
Jennifer Croft
Old Believers
evil
Dutch
anatomist
Philip Verheyen
achilles tendon
Ludwika Jędrzejewicz
Frédéric Chopin
Warsaw
Man Booker International Prize
Lisa Appignanesi
review aggregator
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