{"title":"Olga Tokarczuk","description":"Olga Tokarczuk has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Book International Prize, among many other honors. She is the author of a dozen works of fiction, two collections of essays, and a children's book; her work has been translated into fifty languages.","products":[{"product_id":"house-of-day-house-of-night-paperback","title":"House of Day, House of Night - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the mode of \u003ci\u003eFlights\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize-winning, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times-\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the narrator of \u003ci\u003eHouse of Day, House of Night\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnother brilliant \"constellation novel\" in the mode of her Booker-winning \u003ci\u003eFlights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHouse of Day, House of Night\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101148909791,"sku":"9798217168965","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/oOnAtqSyX89798217168965.webp?v=1781068354"},{"product_id":"the-empusium-a-health-resort-horror-story-paperback","title":"The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone ... elegant and genuinely unsettling.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Nobel Prize winner's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A century after the publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humor, and bravura.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101219524831,"sku":"9780593712955","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/U2ka2NfYPb9780593712955.webp?v=1781068494"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/olga-tokarczuk.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}