Olga Tokarczuk
Author
Description
Un conte fantastique pour partir à la découverte de la différence.
Au XVIIe siècle, William Davisson, un botaniste écossais, devenu médecin particulier du roi polonais Jean II Casimir, suit le monarque dans un long voyage entre la Lituanie et l'Ukraine. Esprit scientifique et fin observateur, il étudie les rudesses climatiques des confins polonais et les coutumes locales. Un jour, lors d'une halte, les soldats du roi capturent deux enfants....
Author
Description
The Lost Soul is a deeply, moving reflection on our capacity to live in peace with ourselves, to remain patient, attentive to the world. It is a story that beautifully weaves together the voice of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and the finely detailed pen-and-ink drawings of illustrator Joanna Concejo, who together create a parallel narrative universe full of secrets, evocative of another time. Here a man has forgotten what...
Author
Description
A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, and autonomy and fate. In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is...
Author
Description
In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas -- and a new unrest -- begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs...
6) Flights
Author
Description
A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined...
7) Spoor
Author
Description
Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who or what is the murderer, but nobody believes her. Based on Olga Tokarczuk's (Nobel Prize Winner) novel 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.'