FLIGHTS, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death. In the nineteenth century, we follow Chopin's heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw. In the present we have the trials of a wife accompanying her much older husband as he teaches a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands, and the harrowing story of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish on a holiday on a Croatian island. With her signature grace and insight, Olga Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.

著者简介

奥尔加·托卡尔丘克(Olga Tokarczuk)，生于1962年。2018年诺贝尔文学奖得主。毕业于华沙大学心理系，1987年以诗集《镜子里的城市》登上文坛，而后接连出版长篇小说《书中人物旅行记》《E.E.》《太古和其他的时间》《白天的房子，夜晚的房子》等，受到波兰评论界的普遍赞扬，作品已授权四十个国家。她善于在作品中融合民间传说、神话等元素，关照波兰的历史命运与现实生活。曾两次获得波兰“尼刻奖”评审团奖，四次获得“尼刻奖”读者选择奖。2018年凭借《云游》（英译名 Flights）获布克国际奖。

译者简介

于是，作者，译者。著有小说《查无此人》《你我好时光》等，译有《云游》《橘子不是唯一的水果》《时间之间》《美与暴烈——三岛由纪夫的生与死》等欧美文学作品。