The Nobel Prize-winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, Messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. Book-bundled tickets are still available. PLEASE NOTE: We have sold out of signed bookplates. This author talk is free! You can sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book. A recording of the event will be made available and emailed to all who register. During the event, you can ask questions using the Q&A feature, or chat with fellow attendees. Registering will provide you with a unique access link in an email within 48 hours of the event. This event will be broadcast live on Brookline Booksmith's Zoom platform. Tokarczuk and Croft will be joined by Rabih Alameddine, National Book Award finalist and the author, most recently, of The Wrong End of the Telescope. Third Place Books is proud to partner with Community Bookstore and the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith to welcome Nobel Prize–winner Olga Tokarczuk and her translator Jennifer Croft for a discussion of their latest book, The Books of Jacob-the astonishing, 900-page volume from Poland's most well-regarded novelist. Olga Tokarczuk is one of Poland’s most celebrated and beloved authors, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize, as well as her country’s highest literary honor, the Nike.This is a virtual event taking place via Zoom Webinar. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler.Įnchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, ‘Flights’ is a master storyteller’s answer.

Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, ‘Flights’ explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. 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.

Winner of The Man Booker International Prizeįrom the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, ‘Flights’ interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration.Ĭhopin’s heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. Winner of The Nobel Prize® In Literature 2018

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