Flights, by the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching themes of life, death, motion, and migration.

Discover the story of Chopin’s heart, carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. Meet a woman who must return to her native Poland to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and follow a young man who slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation, only to reappear just as suddenly.

Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? These questions echo as we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller’s answer.