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2018曼布克國際獎
得獎作品！
【2018曼布克國際獎得主】
2018諾貝爾獎得主朵卡萩是第一位獲得曼布克獎的波蘭作家。
曼布克國際獎、諾貝爾文學獎 雙冠得主Olga Tokarczu 代表鉅作
全書主述者是一位不知名的波蘭人，有著強烈的好奇心和旅行的慾望，他說出了一系列的古怪故事：男人的老婆和兒子在旅遊時突然消失，男人瘋狂地四處奔波尋找他們；一個教授被受雇為一趟郵輪作為講者，上船之後卻意外死在雅典；長期照顧著生病孩子的母親，走出家門也走出自己的人生，到街上開始了一連串的實驗。
紐約時報評論：「這是一本小說作品，也是一個理論的實行、文化人類學和回憶錄。」作者Olga Tokarczu以行動力和好奇心兩主題貫穿全書，探討身為穿越時間和空間的漫遊者、旅行者、移動中的身體，究竟代表了什麼意義。
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx)
"A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time
"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." — Washington Post
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. 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.
