This added a poignant and reflective dimension to reading it. This book was interesting to read during the time of covid when all travel has ceased. My energy derives from movement-from the shuddering of buses, the rumble of planes, trains’ and ferries’ rocking.” I can’t extract nutrition from the ground, I am the anti-Antaeus. I don’t know how to germinate, I’m simply not in possession of that vegetable capacity. I’ve tried, a number of times, but my roots have always been shallow the littlest breeze could always blow me right over. “ Clearly I did not inherit whatever gene it is that makes it so that when you linger in a place you start to put down roots. You may come to some poignant realisations about yourself as well, if you are a travel-lover. What motivates people to constantly move and migrate? What makes us want to wander – moving towards and away from parts of our lives? There are plenty of odes to that bustling mecca of travel – the airport. Instead, the reader is plunged into the depths of the psychology behind travel. Although this isn’t just another boring novel about a traveller undergoing a personal awakening. This quirky, darkly funny and insightful book combines compelling short stories of wanderers and voyagers, with personal anecdotes and philosophical forays. In other words, I am what I look at.” ― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights “ In essence, one becomes what one participates in. Tokarczuk is a thrilling and exhilarating writer who effortlessly criss-crosses genres and conventions, Flight is part essay, creative non fiction, travel novel and much more. Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk won the Man Booker International Prize for this novel in 2018 along with a Nike Award, Poland’s highest literary honour. Genre: Fiction, essay, creative non-fiction, travel.
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