Bieguni

About “Bieguni”

A 2007 novel by Olga Tokarczuk exploring what it means to be a traveler through interwoven stories: a seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg, Chopin's heart is smuggled back to Warsaw by his sister, a woman returns to Poland to poison her dying high school sweetheart, and a man descends into madness when his wife and child vanish and reappear during a vacation.