Olga Tokarczuk
Author
Language
English
Description
"In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas--and a new unrest--begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of...
3) Flights
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A 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...
4) Los errantes
Author
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Al principio de Los errantes, la narradora esboza un autorretrato que es también una poética: A todas luces yo carecía de ese gen que hace que en cuanto se detiene uno en un lugar por un tiempo más o menos largo, enseguida eche raíces. (...) Mi energía es generada por el movimiento: el vaivén de los autobuses, el traqueteo de los trenes, el rugido de los motores de avión, el balanceo de los ferrys. Inquieta como ella, esta novela no se detiene...
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Océano de México
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Las acciones de esta novela negra ocurren en una provincia montąosa de Polonia. Est̀ protagonizada por Janina Duszejko, una mujer retirada que intenta resolver los asesinatos de varios cazadores. El autor cuestiona tanto el nivel de falta de respeto que el hombre tiene hacia la naturaleza como los peligros del radicalismo ambiental, por buenas que sean sus intenciones. Este libro fue un ̌xito de ventas en Polonia."-- provided by publisher.
The...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
""Once upon a time there was a man who worked very hard and very quickly, and who had left his soul far behind him long ago. In fact his life was all right without his soul--he slept, ate, worked, drove a car and even played tennis. But sometimes he felt as if the world around him were flat, as if he were moving across a smooth page in a math book that was covered in evenly spaced squares... " --from The Lost Soul. The Lost Soul is a deeply moving...
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