Flights

De: Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft - translator

Narrado por: Clare Corbett

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018

Flights, a novel about travel in the 21st century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk’s 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 17th century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the 18th century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death. In the 19th century, we follow Chopin’s heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw. In the present we have the trials of a wife accompanying her much older husband as he teaches a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands, and the harrowing story of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish on a holiday on a Croatian island.

With her signature grace and insight, Olga Tokarczuk guides the listener beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.

©2017 Olga Tokarczuk (P)2019 Audible, Ltd

Really good but sometimes hard to follow the story

The narrative makes it difficult to follow without the traditional book marker. Otherwise amazing. yeah

made it through 2 hours and then....

Sorry but I think this is not a book for audible even though the narrator was fine. Would be much better to read this (as opposed to listen to it) as it jumps all over the place. Some very good imagery but, not something I want to struggle with while I'm driving.