![]() ![]() In the nineteenth century, we follow Chopin’s heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw. ![]() From the eighteenth century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion and migration.įrom the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. 'A magnificent writer' – Svetlana Alexievichįlights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is the most ambitious work to date by Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. ![]() 'One among a very few signal European novelists of the past quarter-century' ![]()
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