Publisher's Synopsis
This book is a collection of short stories and novels by Polish writer Olga Tokarchuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. The collection of novels contains 19 works in which Tokarchuk writes lonely people in all kinds of different meanings with fairy-like stories, spreading out their unique adventures that overlap the mind and the real world. It not only covers history, future and fantasy, but also pays attention to topics closely related to daily life such as family relationships, urban life, and secrets of men and women. It deeply describes the strange conditions of many lonely people in the current society, and spreads the unique An overlapping adventure between the mind and the real world.