Flights
2007 • 416 pages

Ratings27

Average rating3.6

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A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. 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.


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Too fragmented. The fragments I liked, where the writing and the storytelling were well done, were too few.

August 16, 2020

I don't think I've ever read a book like this one, and now I want every book to be like this one. What a revelation in what you can do with the written word.

November 18, 2019

Excellent themes and some intriguing thoughts, but by the end I was painfully bored of the paragraph-long chapters. It was also disappointing that the big mystery - the most gripping part of the book - never gets resolved.

August 17, 2018

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