![]() Yet Flights manages to baffle, to make you scratch your head and try to find the proper words for it. In an era in which many books are summarized as X meets Y ( Game of Thrones meets The Cat in the Hat!), it is rare to be genuinely baffled by a description. I do not necessarily subscribe to the mantra of no spoilers - how else are you supposed to perform a critical analysis of certain texts? - but in the case of Olga Tokarczuk's Flights, translated by Jennifer Croft, the hard part is coming up with any spoilers. ![]() ![]() This was long before reviews appeared with the word "spoilers" at the top the age of ink on paper. When I began reviewing books and movies many years ago, I recall the editor at the magazine where I freelanced telling me that the rule of thumb was not to say too much about any given title. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Flights Author Olga Tokarczuk ![]()
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