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House of Day, House of Night

By Olga Tokarczuk

$28.00
"Bewitching ... Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller." --The New York Times

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

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 shards piece together not only a history, but a cosmology.

Another brilliant "constellation novel" in the mode of Tokarczuk's 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.

Book details

Format
Hardcover
Publication date
December 2, 2025
ISBN
9780593716380
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pages
336
Language
English
BISAC
Fiction, Literary, Short Stories (single author), Magical Realism
Related subjects
Small cities, Communities, Storytelling, Oral history, Historians, Silesia, Nowa Ruda (Wojewaodztwo Dolnoaslnaskie, Polan, Historical fiction, Novels

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