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Our Reading Guide for Flights by Olga Tokarczuk includes Book Club Discussion Questions, Book Reviews, Plot Summary-Synopsis and Author Bio.
Flights is a small opening into a universe of other possibilities, a journey to a new and unfamiliar landscape. After reading this beautiful and extraordinarily wise book, readers may find themselves catching a literary version of Tokarczuk’s travel bug, seeking—in an image that recurs throughout the novel—the edge of the world, where the ...
The Flights Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
25 lis 2017 · The four horses proceeded at a foot-pace, straining to drag the heavy carriage through the mud. Simon tacked hither and thither across the road, first driving round a bump, then round a puddle, and jumping down from his seat every minute or so to give his horse a helpful push.
In October 1704, a Boston widow named Sarah Kemble Knight began a five-month round-trip journey to New York City to complete some family business after a cousin’s death. She travelled alone, staying in inns along the route, and employing local men as guides. In these excerpts from her travel journal in which she combines observation and ...
Things Fall Apart is all about the “collapse, breaking into pieces, chaos, and confusion” (Alimi 121) of traditional Igbo culture that suffers at the hand of the white man’s arrival in Umuofia along with his religion. The views about life that the white men have are totally different from the views that the Igbo have.
15 sie 2018 · The obvious summary would be that Flights is not a novel, but a series of loosely interconnected stories about the human body and movement.
