Podróż ludzi księgi

novel by Tokarczuk

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Podróż ludzi księgi (The Journey of the Book-People) is the debut novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Tokarczuk, published in 1993. This novel is described as a parable and is set in 17th-century France and Spain. It received the Polish Publisher's Prize for best debut.12

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Olga Tokarczuk
Novels and other works
…Tokarczuk wrote her first novel, Podróż ludzi księgi (“The Journey of the Book-People”), a parable set in 17th-century France and Spain. It won the Polish Publisher’s Prize for best debut. Her third novel, Prawiek i inne czasy (1996; Primeval and Other Times), established Tokarczuk as an imaginative author and a…
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…Tokarczuk wrote her first novel, Podróż ludzi księgi (“The Journey of the Book-People”), a parable set in 17th-century France and Spain. It won the Polish Publisher’s Prize for best debut. Her third novel, Prawiek i inne czasy (1996; Primeval and Other Times), established Tokarczuk as an imaginative author and a…
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