House of Day, House of Night - Olga Tokarczuk

House of Day, House of Night - Olga TokarczukA woman settles in a remote Polish village. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of its living and its dead. Theres 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. Theres 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

often tinged with contempt or pity

This monograph

but as time goes by Alina becomes drawn to the idea of becoming a mother

drawn or photographed

195 × 255 mm

With over 160 delicious recipes

until even those vanish

Casebound in gold cloth with red foil and red page edges

250 × 305 mm

This combination sometimes punctures the image

The idiomatic vocabulary Laurent draws on suggests a failure of some kind

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