Olga Tokarczuk

Longlist, 2022 National Book Awards
Longlist, 2019 National Book Awards
Finalist, 2018 National Book Awards

Olga Tokarczuk has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the International Booker Prize, among many other honors. She is the author of a dozen works of fiction, two collections of essays, and a children’s book; her work has been translated into 50 languages.
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The Books of Jacob

book cover for Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
ISBN 9780593087480 Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

Translated from the Polish . The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. More about this book >

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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

ISBN 9780525541332 Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House /

A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice? More about this book >

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Flights

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ISBN 9780525534198 Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

Translated by Jennifer Croft 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? More about this book >

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Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the International Booker Prize, among many other honors. She is the author of a dozen works of fiction, two collections of essays, and a children’s book; her work has been translated into 50 languages.

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