{"product_id":"flights","title":"Flights","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA visionary work of fiction with \"echoes of Sebald and] Kundera . . . There's] no better travel companion in these turbulent, fanatical times\" (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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, \u003ci\u003eFlights\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eFlights\u003c\/i\u003e is a master storyteller's answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/olga-tokarczuk-books\"\u003eOlga Tokarczuk\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fiction, general\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fitzcarraldo Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781910695432\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fitzcarraldo Editions","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £14.45","offer_id":47919085224113,"sku":"SB-1910695432-C4","price":14.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1910695432.jpg?v=1789535333","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/flights","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}