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The empusium : a health resort horror story / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
Van Pelt Library PG7179.O37 E6713 2024
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Tokarczuk Empusium
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Empuzjon. English
- Language:
- English
- Polish
- Subjects (All):
- Tuberculosis--Patients--Fiction.
- Tuberculosis.
- Sanatoriums--Poland--Sokołowsko--Fiction.
- Sanatoriums.
- Health resorts--Poland--Sokołowsko--Fiction.
- Health resorts.
- Death--Fiction.
- Death.
- Sokołowsko (Poland)--Fiction.
- Sokołowsko (Poland).
- Poland--Fiction.
- Poland.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Physical Description:
- 300 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First United States edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2024.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from Polish.
- Summary:
- "The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas"-- Provided by publisher.
- "September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone—or something—seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target. A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humor, and bravura"-- Provided by publisher.
- "September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of G̲rbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone--or something--seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target. century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humor, and bravura." -- from amazon.com
- Notes:
- Translation of: Empuzjon.
- "Originally published in Poland as Empuzjon, by Wydawnictwo Literackie, Krakow, in 2022." -- title verso
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version:
- Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962 Empusium
- Online version: Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962 Empusium
- ISBN:
- 9780593712948
- 0593712943
- 9780593854082
- 059385408X
- OCLC:
- 1416627002
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