Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is darkly humorous, deadly serious, and populated with a quirky cast of characters that will stay with you forever. This is definitely not to be missed. — Dua Lipa Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature New York Times Readers Pick - 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 'A brilliant...

The Nobel Prize-winner’s latest work is a riveting, humorous tale of mystery that takes misogyny to task. In September 1913, Mieczysław, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and to...

A woman settles in a remote Polish village. It has few inhabitants now, but it teems with the stories of its living and its dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There’s the man whose death—with one leg...

Flights is a series of imaginative and mesmerising meditations on travel in all its forms, not only the philosophy and meaning of travel, but also fascinating anecdotes that take us out of ourselves, and back to ourselves. Olga Tokarczuk brilliantly connects travel with spellbinding anecdotes about anatomy, about life and death, about the very nature of humankind. Thrilling characters and...

A gorgeously illustrated picture book for adults—with two gatefold pages inside—by Nobelist Olga Tokarczuk and illustrator Joanna Concejo, creators of The Lost Soul. A devastating putdown of our self-obsessed, superficial social media culture. Mr. Distinctive has a memorable, attractive face. He only has to walk down the street, and everyone turns to smile at him. Once, he starred in a...

The much-anticipated English translation of Olga Tokarczuk's magnum opus. As new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a spell that attracts a fervent following. He reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time "A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence... Ambitious...

From one of the world's greatest living writers, recently featured on Dua Lipa's book club, a fable-like novel charting Poland's turbulent twentieth century through the life of a mythical village. The Nobel Prize winner at her earthiest and most ethereal, in a fictional journey through three generations in the life of a mythical Polish village. For the denizens of Primeval,...

Flights is a masterful novel by Olga Tokarczuk that delves into the intricacies of travel and human anatomy, artfully weaving together numerous narratives that span centuries and continents. Through an innovative narrative structure, Tokarczuk presents a tapestry of vignettes that explore themes of life, death, motion, and migration with unparalleled insight and grace. At the heart of Flights is the...