<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Olga Tokarczuk]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Olga Tokarczuk]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/christchurch/rss/search?query=Olga%20Tokarczuk&amp;searchType=author&amp;_ga=2.144681845.1928791990.1570577634-584195803.1469485143&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 02:29:47 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead takes place in a remote Polish village, where Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, she becomes involved in the investigation. Duszejko is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s unconventional, believing in the stars, and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. Filled with wonderful characters like Oddball, Big Foot, Black Coat, Dizzy and Boros, this subversive, entertaining noir novel offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalised people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination, and getting away with murder.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1021856</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1021856</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1021856037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[House of Day, House of Night]]></title><description><![CDATA[A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There’s the man whose death - with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czech - was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these fragments piece together not only a history, but a cosmology.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1589505</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1589505</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1589505037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flights]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1013422</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1013422</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1013422037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Empusium]]></title><description><![CDATA[September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone--or something--seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target. A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humor, and bravura.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1455156</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1455156</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1455156037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Health Resort Horror Story</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Books of Jacob]]></title><description><![CDATA[As new ideas-and a new unrest-begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a spell that attracts a fervent following. He reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumours of his sect's secret rituals and the spread of his iconoclastic beliefs.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1270463</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1270463</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1270463037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Or, A Fantastic Journey Across Seven Borders, Five Languages, and Three Major Religions, Not Counting the Minor Sects</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Primeval and Other Times]]></title><description><![CDATA[Set in the mythical village of Primeval, a microcosm of the world populated by eccentric, archetypal characters and guarded by four archangels, the novel chronicles the lives of the village's inhabitants over the course of the feral 20th century and the episodice violence visited on them.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1132077</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1132077</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1132077037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[House of Day, House of Night]]></title><description><![CDATA[A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There’s the man whose death - with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czech - was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these fragments piece together not only a history, but a cosmology.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1758511</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1758511</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1758511037</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empusium]]></title><description><![CDATA["September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone--or something--seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target."--Back cover.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1476290</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1476290</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1476290037</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Health Resort Horror Story</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empusion]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1481573</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1481573</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[ger]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1481573037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>eine natur(un)heilkundliche Schauergeschichte</subtitle><language>ger</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empuzjon]]></title><description><![CDATA["Najnowsza powieść Olgi Tokarczuk - pierwsza po otrzymaniu Literackiej Nagrody Nobla! Najciekawsze pozostaje zawsze w cieniu, w tym, co niewidoczne. Wrzesień 1913 roku, uzdrowisko Görbersdorf (dzisiejsze Sokołowsko na Dolnym Śląsku). Właśnie tutaj, u podnóża gór, od przeszło pół wieku działa jedno z pierwszych na świecie i słynne w całej Europie specjalistyczne sanatorium leczące choroby „piersiowe i gardlane". Mieczysław Wojnicz, student ze Lwowa, przyjeżdża do uzdrowiska z nadzieją, że nowatorskie metody i krystalicznie czyste powietrze powstrzymają rozwój jego choroby, a może nawet całkowicie go uleczą. Diagnoza nie pozostawia jednak złudzeń - tuberculosis. Gruźlica. W Pensjonacie dla Panów, gdzie zamieszkuje, poznaje innych kuracjuszy. Chorzy z Wiednia, Królewca, Breslau i Berlina przy nalewce Schwärmerei niestrudzenie omawiają najważniejsze sprawy tego świata. Czy Europie grozi wojna? Monarchia czy demokracja? Czy demony istnieją? Czy oddając się lekturze, da się rozpoznać, czyją ręką tekst został napisany - kobiety czy mężczyzny? Ale nie tylko te pytania zajmują pensjonariuszy. Do Wojnicza docierają też przerażające historie o tragicznych wydarzeniach w górskich okolicach sanatorium. Choć on sam zajęty jest ukrywaniem prawdy o sobie, zagadka budzących grozę wypadków fascynuje go coraz bardziej. Nie wie jednak, że mroczne siły już wzięły go sobie na cel. Olga Tokarczuk w Empuzjonie odsłania przed czytelnikami prawdy o świecie, których albo nie zauważamy, albo za wszelką cenę nie chcemy do siebie dopuścić." --author's website.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1373632</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1373632</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[pol]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1373632037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>horror przyrodoleczniczy</subtitle><language>pol</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Books of Jacob]]></title><description><![CDATA[The story follows the comet-like rise and fall of a messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. As new ideas--and a new unrest--begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a spell that attracts a fervent following. He reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam, then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic, revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumours of his sect's secret rituals and the spread of his iconoclastic beliefs. The story of Frank--a real historical figure, a divisive yet charismatic man--is the perfect canvas for the genius and unparalleled reach of Olga Tokarczuk. Narrated through the perspectives of his contemporaries--those who revere him, those who revile him, the friend who betrays him, the lone woman who sees him for what he is--The Books of Jacob captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1287573</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1287573</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1287573037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lost Soul]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once upon a time there was a man who worked very hard and very quickly, and who had left his soul far behind him long ago. In fact his life was all right without his soul--he slept, ate, worked, drove a car and even played tennis. But sometimes he felt as if the world around him were flat, as if he were moving across a smooth page in a math book that was covered in evenly spaced squares...' The Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflection on our capacity to live in peace with ourselves, to remain patient, attentive to the world. It is a story that beautifully weaves together the voice of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and the finely detailed pen-and-ink drawings of illustrator Joanna Concejo, who together create a parallel narrative universe full of secrets, evocative of another time. Here a man has forgotten what makes his heart feel full. He moves to a house away from all that is familiar to him to wait for his soul to return. The Lost Soul is a sublime album, a rare delicacy that will delight readers young and old. 'You must find a place of your own, sit there quietly and wait for your soul.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1264723</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1264723</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1264723037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mi gu zhi rang]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1257482</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1257482</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[chi]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1257482037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>chi</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Podróż ludzi Księgi]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1125009</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1125009</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[pol]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1125009037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>pol</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead takes place in a remote Polish village, where Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, she becomes involved in the investigation. Duszejko is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s unconventional, believing in the stars, and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. Filled with wonderful characters like Oddball, Big Foot, Black Coat, Dizzy and Boros, this subversive, entertaining noir novel offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalised people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination, and getting away with murder.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1040519</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1040519</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1040519037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1066446</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1066446</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[pol]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1066446037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>pol</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flights]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1040087</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1040087</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1040087037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prawiek i inne czasy]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C914325</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C914325</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[pol]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/914325037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>pol</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anna In w grobowcach świata]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1327822</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1327822</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[pol]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1327822037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>pol</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bieguni]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C914321</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C914321</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[pol]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/914321037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>pol</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Empusium]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas.  September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of G̲rbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone--or something--seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target.   A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humour, and bravura.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1476163</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1476163</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1476163037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Health Resort Horror Story</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[House of Day, House of Night]]></title><description><![CDATA[A woman settles in a remote Polish village. It has few inhabitants, now, but it teems with the stories of its living and its dead. There's the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There's the man whose death—with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czech—was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these shards piece together not only a history but a cosmology.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1736446</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1736446</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1736446037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hearing Trumpet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the Earth's rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner, the Goddess Venus. Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature, a nonagenarian vegetarian named Marian Leatherby.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1230243</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1230243</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carrington, Leonora, 1917-2011]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 1976 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1230243037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item></channel></rss>