Wandering

Bieguni

New Nobel Prize winner Tokarczuk's masterpiece
Winner of the 2008 Nike Prize and the 2018 Man Booker International Prize, "Movement is sacred. Don't stop!" 116 fragments are stitched together into a journey, moving like particles through the world, becoming a wanderer in all time and space. ✈ Editor's Recommendation ◎ Olga Tokarczuk, the newly crowned Nobel Prize winner in Literature, "Her narratives are full of encyclopedic passion and imagination, representing a life form that transcends borders." Coincidentally, when the author learned of this news, she was driving across the German border.
Composed of 116 sketches, random thoughts, contemporary stories, and historical legends, this wondrous work, at once poetic and epic, unfolds an incredibly expansive, multilayered world where the light and the heavy intertwine, allowing for easy reading from any point. Following "Eternal Time and Other Times" and "House of Day, House of Night," the author approaches reality and history from a more philosophical perspective, constantly observing while acting, as if documenting a neighboring tourist who is perhaps also documenting "me": we are intertextual.
◎ "Cloud Wanderer" was published in 2007 and won the Nike Prize (Poland's highest literary award) the following year; the English translation was published in 2018 and won the Man Booker International Prize that year. The following year, the author won the Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the author's masterpiece that took him out of Poland and into the international arena, establishing his world reputation.
It took ten years from the first Polish edition to the English translation, and only one year from the Booker Prize to the Nobel Prize in Literature. This book has been licensed to over forty countries.
◎ She was called a "brilliant writer" by Svetlana Alexievich (2015 Nobel Prize winner and author of Second-Hand Time) and regarded as a fellow rebellious traveler.
✈ Synopsis: "The Wanderer" is a constellation novel. In Tokarczuk's own words, "The truth lies in the constellations, not in their ordered arrangements." The book begins in a doctor's waiting room, where the author, while waiting for a blood test, suddenly realizes how little she knows about her own body. Then the research begins, and the author even spends a whole year studying anatomy in Amsterdam. The novel consists of 116 chapters, both long and short. Revolving around two intertwining themes—travel and the preservation of the human body—the novel weaves together fictional stories, real-life events, and thoughtful fragments. The metaphorical and metaphysical questions of the body, travel, flight, and movement unfold along the central thread of the human body's movement through the world.
✈ Media Recommendation: Tokarczuk's discerning eye transforms everything, and with the same acumen, her work subverts traditional forms. Like her traveling characters, the narrative perspective in her books is constantly moving, observing, interpreting, and always brilliantly insightful.
—The New Yorker
"Wandering" is a beautiful yet fragmented look at the human desire for eternity.
—The Washington Post
In these turbulent and frenetic times, there is no better travel companion than this book.
—The Guardian
A book of flying composed of 116 journeys.
—Chicago Review of Books
If you like wandering around the edge of the map, Cloud Travel is the journey you need.
—National Public Radio International Booker Prize winner "Cloudwalker" is a strange, surreal book of rare beauty. It offers a reading experience unlike any other. In both its best and its most demented senses, Cloudwalker has a dreamlike quality; you almost feel the need to bend your head into silhouette to follow its "momentary, fragmentary, fleeting patterns." When this ingenious novel lifts the reader off the ground, it's magical—exciting, strange, and perceptually vibrant.
——Entertainment Weekly
✈ Celebrity Recommendation: I've attempted to narrate travel experiences in a new language. Travel isn't a linear experience: we go from airport to airport, from bus stop to bus stop, like we're traversing different landmasses. ... Readers... can read this book in an airport, on a train. This book is easy to read, allowing readers to read the chapters in any order they prefer, jumping from short story to short story, from character to character, and ultimately, feeling the book's completeness.
—Olga Tokarczuk A magnificent writer — SA Alexievich (2015 Nobel Prize winner)
A remarkable novel, by a writer worthy of Sebald.
—Annie Proulx (author of Brokeback Mountain)
✈ Award record
In 2008, he won the Nike Prize, Poland's highest literary award.
In 2018, he won the Man Booker International Prize.

2020-01-01

四川人民出版社

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