Flights - Olga Tokarczuk non-fiction moreStroll around this port city

moreStroll around this port city and you’ll brush shoulders with local fishermen on the banks of the River Elbe

a young German man of Turkish descent

die das Haus gebaut und darin gearbeitet haben

One without Instagram and online dating

and still will be for us humans

Flights - Olga Tokarczuk non-fiction moreStroll around this port cityFlights, a novel about travel in the twenty first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuks 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