Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (Translator) ” If we allow ourselves

” If we allow ourselves to listen

politics and society - and of South Asian Studies

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but does so from a perspective never before available on that seldom-chronicled part of the world

across treacherous rivers

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (Translator) ” If we allow ourselvesFLIGHTS, a novel about travel in the twenty first 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 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