House of Day, House of Night

by Tokarczuk, Olga
ISBN: 9780593716380
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In the mode of Flights, a novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author.

When the narrator of House of Day, House of Night arrives with her husband in a village in remote southwest Poland, she knows no one. Before long, though, she discovers that everyone--and everything--there has a story. With the help of her neighbor, the eccentric Marta, she pieces together the fragments of the living and the dead. There's the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers 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 German soldiers, not long departed, who still haunt the region. 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.

Another brilliant "constellation novel" in the mode of her Booker-winning Flights, House of Day, House of Night interweaves narrative, musings, history, and mythology, reminding us that the story of any place, no matter how humble, is fascinating and boundless, and awaits any of us with the imagination to seek it.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Tokarczuk, Olga
  • ISBN: 9780593716380
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.25 x 0.88
  • Number Of Pages: 352
  • Publication Year: 2025
Language: English

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  • Richly imagined, weaving anecdote with recipes and gossip

    Sara E. - 3 months ago

    House of Day, House of Night is a puzzle box of stories that satisfyingly intertwine into a dreamy and esoteric haze, spanning across vastly different characters, from the life of a folk saint, to a man who causes international tension by dying on the border between Poland and Czechoslovakia. A must-read for those who are compelled by religious strangeness and surrealism.

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