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House of day, house of night / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
When the narrator of 'House of Day, House of Night' arrives in a village in remote southwest Poland, she knows no one. Before long, though, she discovers that everyone there has a story. With the help of her neighbour, she pieces together the fragments of the living and the dead. Shard by shard, from the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these stories capture not only a history but a cosmology. Please note: Libraries should check their holdings for the academic press edition (ISBN 9780810118928).
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593716380 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 319 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2025.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes recipes. "Originally published in Poland as Dom dzienny, dom nocny by Wydawnictwo Ruta, Wałbrzych, in 1998."--Title page verso. |
| Language Note: | In English, translated from the Polish. |
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| Subject: | Cities and towns > Fiction. Dreams > Fiction. Poland > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Autobiographical fiction. Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. Magic realist fiction. Recipes. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Tokar | 31681010446524 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead"-- Provided by publisher. - Baker & Taylor
Another âconstellation novelâ from the Booker Prizeâwinning author of Flights, this tale set in a remote Polish village interweaves history, myth and memory as eccentric characters and haunting stories reveal the boundless imagination of place. - Penguin Putnam
âBewitching … Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller.â âThe New York Times
A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prizeâwinning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
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. Thereâs 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. Thereâs the man whose death â with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czechâwas 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.
Another brilliant âconstellation novelâ in the mode of Tokarczukâs International Booker Prize-winning Flights, House of Day, House of Night reminds us that the story of any place, no matter how humble, is boundless.
