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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781923058675
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Description:
An extraordinary novel from Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk, the renowned Polish author of Flights and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.
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 on the Polish side, one on the Czech-was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these shards piece together not only a history but a cosmology.
Another brilliant 'constellation novel' in the mode of her International Booker Prize-winning Flights, House of Day, House of Night reminds us that the story of any place, no matter how humble, is boundless.
PRAISE-
House of Day, House of Night is packed with chewy philosophical ideas and spellbinding images.' Australian
'The language in this novel is incredible. I found myself frequently putting the book down for a moment just to think about a particular word or phrase. This is my first Tokarczuk novel and I am thrilled to discover a writing style I love so much. I am going to read all Tokarczuk's work that I can get my hands on.' Readings Monthly
'Darkly humorous, deadly serious, and with a quirky cast of characters that will stay with you forever, this
ISBN: 9781923058675
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Description:
An extraordinary novel from Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk, the renowned Polish author of Flights and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.
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 on the Polish side, one on the Czech-was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these shards piece together not only a history but a cosmology.
Another brilliant 'constellation novel' in the mode of her International Booker Prize-winning Flights, House of Day, House of Night reminds us that the story of any place, no matter how humble, is boundless.
PRAISE-
House of Day, House of Night is packed with chewy philosophical ideas and spellbinding images.' Australian
'The language in this novel is incredible. I found myself frequently putting the book down for a moment just to think about a particular word or phrase. This is my first Tokarczuk novel and I am thrilled to discover a writing style I love so much. I am going to read all Tokarczuk's work that I can get my hands on.' Readings Monthly
'Darkly humorous, deadly serious, and with a quirky cast of characters that will stay with you forever, this