'The Polymer Preservation Process, Step by Step'.

'Josefina Soliman's Third Letter to Franz I'.

'The History of Filip Verheyen Written by His Student and Confidant William van Horssen'.

'Josefina Soliman's Second Letter to Franz I, Emperor of Austria'.

'Josefina Soliman's First Letter to Franz I, Emperor of Austria'.

'Citizens of the World Pick Up Your Pens!'.

These vignettes are all narrated by the same 'nameless female traveller'. The novel is split into 116 short pieces, some only one sentence long, others as long as 31 pages. Tokarczuk and Croft shared the £50,000 prize. The chair of the judging panel, Lisa Appignanesi, described Tokarczuk as a 'writer of wonderful wit, imagination, and literary panache'. The novel won the Man Booker International Prize in 2018, marking the first time a Polish author received the award. It is structured as a series of vignettes, some fictional, and some based on fact – among them that of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen's discovery of the achilles tendon, and the story of Ludwika Jędrzejewicz, the sister of the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, transporting his heart back to Warsaw.

Set between the 17th and 21st centuries, the novel is a 'philosophical rumination on modern-day travel'. The original Polish title refers to runaways (runners, bieguni), a sect of Old Believers, who believe that being in constant motion is a trick to avoid evil. The book was translated into English by Jennifer Croft. It was originally published in Polish as Bieguni. Flights is a 2007 fragmentary novel by the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk.

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