Flights.
Translated by Jennifer Croft.
New York: Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House), 2019.
Originally published as: Bieguni, Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2007.
First English language edition: London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017.
Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.
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Wikipedia Articles :
- Olga Tokarczuk (b. 1962).
- Flights, 2007, English translation first published 2017.
- From the Wikipedia article Flights : "The original Polish title [Bieguni] refers to runaways (runners, bieguni), a sect of Old Believers [Russian Orthodox Church], who believe that being in constant motion is a trick to avoid evil."
- Flights is described as a fragmentary novel; this article list several well known novels that are examples of that style.
- International Booker Prize: 2018 awarded to Flights.
- 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk.
- Jennifer Croft (b. 1981 or 1982), translator.
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Miscellaneous Book Reviews :
- anonymous, "Bieguni" [Runners], Booklips, no date. [In Polish.]
- anonymous, "Flights," Kirkus Reviews, 14 May 2018.
- Kapka Kassabova, "Flights by Olga Tokarczuk review – the ways of wanderers," The Guardian, 3 June 2017.
- James Wood, "'Flights,' a Novel That Never Settles Down, The New Yorker, 24 September 2018.
- Adam Mars-Jones, "Constellationality," London Review of Books, 5 October 2017.
- Eileen Battersby, "Complex Harmonies: On Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights," Los Angeles Review of Books, 11 April 2018.
- Shazia Hafiz Ramji, "A Soaring Novel in 116 'Flights', Chicago Review of Books, 31 August 2018.
- Anna Badkhen, "The View from 35,000 Feet," New York Review of Books, 4 December 2018.
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