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Olga Tokarczuk is one of Poland's best and most beloved authors. In 2015 she received the Brueckepreis and the prestigious annual literary award from Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, as well as Poland's highest literary honor, the Nike, and the Nike Readers' Prize. Tokarczuk also received a Nike in 2009 for Flights. She is the author of eight novels and two short story collections, and has been translated into a dozen languages. Jennifer Croft is the recipient of Fulbright, PEN, MacDowell and National Endowment for the Arts grants and fellowships, as well as the Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of Iowa.
`Clever with a dry wit and beautiful black and white maps throughout the book, which added to the feeling that reading it was like stepping into a museum.' * Good Reading * `Tokarczuk has a quizzical and highly observant eye, seeking and recording, turning perversely towards the deformed, the monstrous and abject... This all makes for excellent and entertaining reading as we are privy to scenes and descriptions from which our first reaction would be to turn away.' * Otago Daily Times * `Tokarczuk's peerless travel guide is actually a guide to living. Every word, observation, reflection and story embraces the importance of staying mobile in thought as much as in being...This is as brilliant and life-affirming as literature gets.' * Saturday Paper * `I have always considered her a person of great literary abilities. With Flights I have my proof. This is one of the most important Polish books I have read for years.' * Jerzy Sosnowski * `Reading Flights is like finally hearing from a weird old best friend you lost touch with years ago and assumed was gone forever because people that amazing and inventive just don't last. Wrong-they were off rediscovering the world on your behalf, just as Olga Tokarczuk does.' -- Toby Litt, author of Hospital `Tokarczuk examines questions of travel in our increasingly interconnected and fast-moving world...Trained as a psychologist, Tokarczuk is interested in what connects the human soul and body. It is a leitmotif that, despite the apparent lack of a single plot, tightly weaves the text's different strands-of fiction, memoir and essay-into a whole.' * Spectator * `A novel in essays, a world-exploration in words, a soaring journey across space and through time.' * Nicolas Rothwell * `A novel of intuitions as much as ideas, a cacophony of voices and stories seemingly unconnected across time and space, which meander between the profound and the facetious, the mysterious and the ordinary, and whose true register remains one of glorious ambiguity...Flights is a passionate and enchantingly discursive plea for meaningful connectedness, for the acceptance of fluidity, mobility, illusoriness .' * Guardian * `One among a very few signal European novelists of the past quarter-century.' * Economist * `A magnificent writer.' * Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate 2015 *
