Flights
Tokarczuk, Olga2017
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'Flights', which was awarded Poland's biggest literary prize in 2008, is a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the real Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg, discovering in so doing the Achilles tendon.
Main title:
Flights / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Jennifer Croft.
Imprint:
Montreal : Drawn and Quarterly, 2017.
Collation:
400 pages ; 13 x 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Polish.
ISBN:
9781910695432 (pbk)
Dewey class:
FICTION
Local class:
FICT
Language:
EnglishPolish
BRN:
2464649
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