When Olga Tokarczuk’s sixth novel, Flights, was about to be published in the UK last year the Bookseller trilled that “she is probably one of the greatest living writers you have never heard of”. Our previous meeting was a year earlier in a Warsaw cafe, when Flights had yet to be published in the UK. The vagaries of English translation meant we were there to discuss a novel that was originally published in 2007. I thought we’d be able to discuss the dark areas in our history,” she said. Flights by Olga Tokarczuk review – the ways of wanderers Read moreThe literature of central Europe is very different from that of the west, she explains.

Source: The Guardian April 20, 2018 10:52 UTC