Reading it is a fascinating experience, because there is no overall plot, there are no characters who appear through the book. For want of a better word, it has been called a novel. It is a strange, wild literary animal and it defies classification. It is like we walk into a forest filled with stories, and we discover a writer who takes everything that she likes and she knows, sculpts that into a beautiful, wild shape and squeezes it into the pages of a book and presents it to us. It is all that, but one thing it is not, is a novel. So, what is ‘ Flights‘ about? It has been described as a novel about travel, human anatomy, life, death, motion, migration. I finally got a chance to read it for Women in Translation Month. I have wanted to read Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘ Flights‘ ever since I heard about it.
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