“Flights” is made up of 116 vignettes - both fiction and nonfiction - ranging from a Polish man’s desperate search for his wife and child after they disappear during a vacation in Croatia, to a historical account of Chopin’s heart being smuggled into Warsaw beneath his sister’s skirt. Tokarczuk won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel “Flights,” which treats travel as a uniquely corporeal experience. Tokarczuk’s love affair with travel and a delectable way of writing about it that continues to evolve. The destination was hardly an exotic one - East Germany in 1990 - but it signaled the beginning of Ms.
Tokarczuk (pronounced To-KAR-chook) rejoiced when over 40 years of Soviet-induced international isolation finally came to an end.
The Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk had to wait until she was 28 to receive a passport and make her first trip abroad.
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