Flights - Olga Tokarczuk NYC 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

which in their proliferation and various patterns

Erich Consemüller

Making these distinctions on the spot can be nerve-wracking and disastrous

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Flights - Olga Tokarczuk NYC 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