Primeval and Other Times
$31.20
- Paperback
252 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2026
Summary
From one of the world’s greatest living writers, a fable-like novel charting Poland’s turbulent twentieth century through the life of a mythical village.
The Nobel Prize winner at her earthiest and most ethereal, in a fictional journey through three generations in the life of a mythical Polish village. For the denizens of Primeval, the world beyond its fields and forests is but a dream. The outcast Cornspike raises her daughter among the creatures and spirits of the forest. The squire…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923670082 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1923670085 |
| Author: | Olga Tokarczuk |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 252 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 265g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 127mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
‘As brilliant and life-affirming as literature gets.’ Saturday Paper on Flights
‘An international, mercurial, and always generous book, to be endlessly revisited.’ Los Angeles Review of Books on Flights
‘Just one of those books you need to read.’ Lit Hub on House of Day, House of Night
About The Author
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk is the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize for her novel Flights. She has received numerous other honors, including Poland’s highest literary award, the Nike, for both Flights and The Books of Jacob. Her novels Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and House of Day, House of Night have also been highly acclaimed.
She is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, a children’s book, and two collections of essays. Her work has been translated into over fifty languages.
Widely regarded as one of the most significant writers of her generation, she lives in the countryside near Nowa Ruda, in south-western Poland.
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