

In an era in which many books are summarized as X meets Y ( Game of Thrones meets The Cat in the Hat!), it is rare to be genuinely baffled by a description. I do not necessarily subscribe to the mantra of no spoilers - how else are you supposed to perform a critical analysis of certain texts? - but in the case of Olga Tokarczuk's Flights, translated by Jennifer Croft, the hard part is coming up with any spoilers.

This was long before reviews appeared with the word "spoilers" at the top the age of ink on paper. When I began reviewing books and movies many years ago, I recall the editor at the magazine where I freelanced telling me that the rule of thumb was not to say too much about any given title. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.

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