Free delivery on all orders above $30
Get 10% off all year round! Join Thryft Club
Get 10% off all year round and $10 off your next order! Join Thryft Club

Your cart

Your cart is empty

Check out these collections!

Bestselling Fiction
Bestselling Nonfiction
Bestselling Books for Children
Vintage and Rare Books
Vinyl Records
Women's Clothing
Men's Clothing

Stay in touch and win free books

Keep up with our latest sales and events, and receive
recommendations direct to your inbox. We'll only send the good stuff, promise!

By completing this form, you are signing up to receive our emails and can unsubscribe at any time

Flights

by Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft
Save 11%
Flights - Thryft
Flights - Thryft

Reflections on travel and the human body.

Flights is an enchanting and unsettling masterpiece that explores the essence of travel alongside the human body, tackling topics of life, death, motion, and migration. The interweaving of brilliantly imagined characters with haunting, poetic meditations makes for a wonderfully unique and thought-provoking read, perfect for those who enjoy philosophical musings on the nature of human existence and our place in the world.

  • Nike Literary Award (Nagroda Literacka Nike) (2008)
  • BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2019)
  • Angelus Nominee (2008)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Translated Literature (2018)
  • Mikael Agricola -palkinto (2013)
  • Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Nominee (2018)
  • International Booker Prize (2018)
  • Openbook好書獎-年度翻譯書 (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Flights

by Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft
Save 11%
Condition guide

Book Condition Guide

Books in Like New Condition

This book may contain very minor cosmetic defects, but it is in pristine condition. There should be no yellowing, no foxing, no water damage, and no annotations of any kind on the cover and the pages. For paperbacks, there should not be any crease marks on the spine. This book is good as new — lucky you!

*Books may be missing bundle media (e.g. CD, e-book code), if included.

Books in Very Good Condition

This book has been used, but it is still in a clean condition. There should be no foxing or annotations of any kind on the inner pages, but a sparse amount may be present on the cover, title pages, or outside edges of the book. There should be no water damage of any kind. For paperbacks, there may be light crease marks on the spine.

*Books may be missing bundle media (e.g. CD, e-book code), if included.

Books in Good Condition

We do our best to ensure the quality of our books, but there is no escaping the wear and tear that comes with time. Slight foxing and some annotations may be present on the pages and the cover. There should be no water damage of any kind. For paperbacks, there may be several crease marks on the spine.

*Books may be missing bundle media (e.g. CD, e-book code), if included.

Books in Well Read Condition

This is a well-read book, which means that the previous owner probably really enjoyed it! The cover and pages may include moderate foxing and annotations, but the text is not obscured and still readable. Moderate cosmetic defects and minor water damage may be present on the edges of the book. For paperbacks, there may be multiple crease marks on the spine.

*Books may be missing bundle media (e.g. CD, e-book code), if included.

 

Find out more about our process here.

Special Offer

Buy 3, Get 1 Free On All Items Under S$10

Add 4 items under S$10 to your cart — the cheapest one is on us.

ISBN: 9780525541264
Authors: Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Date of Publication: 2018-08-14
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.76
(rated by 30454 readers)

Description

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. 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 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? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.
 

Reflections on travel and the human body.

Flights is an enchanting and unsettling masterpiece that explores the essence of travel alongside the human body, tackling topics of life, death, motion, and migration. The interweaving of brilliantly imagined characters with haunting, poetic meditations makes for a wonderfully unique and thought-provoking read, perfect for those who enjoy philosophical musings on the nature of human existence and our place in the world.

  • Nike Literary Award (Nagroda Literacka Nike) (2008)
  • BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2019)
  • Angelus Nominee (2008)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Translated Literature (2018)
  • Mikael Agricola -palkinto (2013)
  • Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Nominee (2018)
  • International Booker Prize (2018)
  • Openbook好書獎-年度翻譯書 (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.