'Flights' Is A Trip, If You Like Wandering Off The Edges Of The Map
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk's new collection is a cabinet of curiosities — surreal, loosely connected stories about the human body, about movement, about two-headed calves and saints' relics.
When I began reviewing books and movies many years ago, I recall the editor at the magazine where I freelanced telling me that the rule of thumb was not to say too much about any given title. This was long before reviews appeared with the word "spoilers" at the top; the age of ink on paper.
I do not necessarily subscribe, translated by Jennifer Croft, the hard part is coming up with any spoilers. In an era in which many books are summarized as X meets Y ( meets ), it is rare to be genuinely baffled by a description. Yet manages to baffle, to make you scratch your head and try to find the proper words for it.
