Olga Tokarczuk
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Publisher
Océano Hotel de las letras
Pub. Date
2015
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Español
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Premio Nobel de Literatura 2018.
Una de las voces más vigorosas de la nueva narrativa polaca.
Escrito bajo la forma de un thriller negro, Sobre los huesos de los muertos es un libro que muestra la complejidad del ser humano y las contradicciones que habitan en el fondo de su alma.
Las acciones de esta novela de corte policiaco se desarrollan en una provincia montañosa de Polonia. Está protagonizada por Janina Duszejko, una mujer jubilada que intenta...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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Vuelve la Premio Nobel con una novela total sobre las andanzas de Jacob Frank, que se autoproclamó Mesías en pleno Siglo de las Luces.
Jacob Frank, el protagonista de esta novela, parece por sus peripecias un personaje ficticio que solo la mente de una novelista podría concebir. Sin embargo, resulta que existió, y su vida está históricamente documentada. La Premio Nobel Olga Tokarczuk parte de las andanzas de
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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....
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ”
“Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post
“Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade-defining book akin to Bolaño’s 2666.” –AV Club
“Sophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit. . . The comedy...
“Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post
“Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade-defining book akin to Bolaño’s 2666.” –AV Club
“Sophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit. . . The comedy...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx)
"A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time
"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.......
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx)
"A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time
"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.......
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English
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"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 amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount,...
7) Flights
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
403 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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...
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English
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""Once upon a time there was a man who worked very hard and very quickly, and who had left his soul far behind him long ago. In fact his life was all right without his soul--he slept, ate, worked, drove a car and even played tennis. But sometimes he felt as if the world around him were flat, as if he were moving across a smooth page in a math book that was covered in evenly spaced squares... " --from The Lost Soul The Lost Soul is a deeply moving...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Twisted Spoon Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in the mythical village of Primeval, a microcosm of the world populated by eccentric, archetypal characters and guarded by four archangels, the novel chronicles the lives of the village's inhabitants over the course of the feral 20th century and the episodic violence visited on them."--Book flap.
12) Spoor
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English
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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.'