Flights
Book |
First American edition. |
Riverhead Books,
New York :
2018.
- 4 of 4 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Fort Erie Library System
- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centennial | FIC TOKAR 2018 | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
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.
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Details
- ISBN: 9780525534198
- ISBN: 0525534199
- ISBN: 9780525534211
- Physical Description: print403 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
- General Note: In English, translated from the Polish.Booker International Prize, 2018.
- Formatted Contents Note: Here I am -- World in your head -- Your head in the world -- Syndrome -- Cabinet of curiosities -- Seeing is knowing -- Seven years of trips -- Guidance from Cioran -- Kunicki: water (I) -- Benedictus, quivenit -- PANOPTICON -- KUNICKI: WATER (II) -- EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE -- 61 AIRPORTS -- RETURNING TO ONE ROOTS -- TRAVEL SIZES -- MANO DI GIOVANNI BATTISTA -- THE ORIGINAL AND THE COPY -- TRAINS FOR COWARDS -- ABANDONED APARTMENT -- THE BOOK OF INFAMY -- GUIDEBOOKS -- NEW ATHENS -- WIKIPEDIA -- CITIZENS OF THE WORLD, PICK UP YOUR PENS! -- TRAVEL PSYCHOLOGY: LECTIO BREVIS I -- THE RIGHT TIME AND PLACE -- INSTRUCTIONS -- ASH WEDNESDAY FEAST -- NORTH POLE EXPEDITIONS -- THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AN ISLAND -- PURGING THE MAP -- IN PURSUIT OF NIGHT -- SANITARY PADS -- RELICS: PEREGRINATIO AD LOCA SANCTA -- BELLY DANCE -- MERIDIANS -- UNUS MUNDUS -- HAREM (MENCHU TALE) -- ANOTHER OF MENCHU TALES -- CLEOPATRAS -- A VERY LONG QUARTER OF AN HOUR -- APULEIUS THE DONKEY -- MEDIA PRESENTERS -- KALI YUGA -- WAX MODEL COLLECTIONS -- DR BLAU TRAVELS (I) -- JOSEFINE SOLIMAN FIRST LETTER TO FRANCIS I, EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA -- AMONG THE MAORI -- DR BLAU TRAVELS (II) -- PLANE OF PROFLIGATES.
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Awards Note:
Booker International Prize, 2018.