Flights
Book |
First American edition. |
Riverhead Books,
New York :
2018.
- 3 of 3 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at West Lincoln Public Library
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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About
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.
Details
- ISBN: 9780525534211
- ISBN: 0525534199
- ISBN: 9780525534198
- Physical Description: 403 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.print
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
- General Note: Booker International Prize, 2018.In English, translated from the Polish.
- Formatted Contents Note: Pilgrim's make-up -- Josefine Soliman's second letter to Francis I, Emperor of Austria -- Sarira -- The Bodhi tree -- Home is my hotel -- t Travel psychology: lectio brevis II -- Compatriots -- Travelpsychologyy: conclusion -- The tongue is the strongest muscle -- Speak! Speak! -- Frog and bird -- Lines, planes and bodies -- The achilles tendon -- The history of Filip Verheyen, written by his student and confidant, Willem Van Horssen -- Letters to the amputated leg -- Travel tales -- Three hundred kilometres -- 30,000 guilders -- The Tsar's collection -- Irkutsk-Moscow -- Dark matter -- Mobility is reality -- Flights -- WHAT THE SHROUDED RUNAWAY WAS SAYING -- JOSEFINE SOLIMAN'S THIRD LETTER TO FRANCIS I -- THINGS NOT MADE BY HUMAN HANDS -- PURITY OF BLOOD -- KUNSTKAMMER -- MANO DI CONSTANTINO -- MAPPING THE VOID -- ANOTHER COOK -- WHALES, OR: DROWNING IN AIR -- GODZONE -- FEAR NOT -- DAY OF THE DEAD -- RUTH -- RECEPTION AT LARGE FANCY HOTELS -- POINT -- CROSS SECTION AS LEARNING METHOD -- CHOPIN'S HEART -- DRY SPECIMENS -- NETWORK STATE -- SWASTIKAS -- VENDORS OF NAMES -- DRAMA AND ACTION -- EVIDENCE -- NINE -- ATTEMPTS AT TRAVEL STEREOMETRY -- EVEN -- KUNICKI: EARTH -- ISLAND SYMMETRIES -- AIR-SICKNESS BAGS -- THE EARTH'S NIPPLES -- POGO -- WALL -- AMPHITHEATRE IN SLEEP -- MAP OF GREECE -- KAIROS -- I'M HERE -- ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES -- FINAL TIMETABLE -- THE POLYMER PRESERVATION PROCESS, STEP BY STEP -- BOARDING.
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Awards Note:
Booker International Prize, 2018.