The only book in English for readers of all ages by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Olga Tokarczuk is a beautifully illustrated meditation on the fullness of life.
It is a story that beautifully weaves together the voice of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and the finely detailed pen-and-ink drawings of illus. --Guardian The Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflection on our capacity to live in peace with ourselves, to remain patient, attentive to the world.
It pours a childlike sense of wonder into a once-upon-a-time tale that is already resonating with adults around the world. . . --New York Times The Lost Soul, by Olga Tokarczuk and illustrator Joanna Concejo, is a quiet meditation on happiness, following a busy man who loses his soul.
What a striking, and lovely, material object it is. . . .
Olga Tokarczuk\'s The Lost Soul, an experimental fable illustrated by Joanna Concejo and translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, resonates with our current moment.
The only book in English for readers of all ages by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Olga Tokarczuk is a beautifully illustrated meditation on the fullness of life.
Winner of the Bologna Ragazzi Award, Special Mention 2018, Prix de l\'Union Internationale pour les Livres de Jeunesse (IBBY), The White Raven (IJB Munich), and the L dź
Design Festival Award.
You must find a place of your own, sit there quietly and wait for your soul.
The Lost Soul is a sublime album, a rare delicacy that will delight readers young and old.
He moves to a house away from all that is familiar to him to wait for his Soul to return.
Here a man has forgotten what makes his heart feel full.
It is a story that beautifully weaves together the voice of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and the finely detailed pen-and-ink drawings of illustrator Joanna Concejo, who together create a parallel narrative universe full of secrets, evocative of another time. --from The Lost Soul The Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflection on our capacity to live in peace with ourselves, to remain patient, attentive to the world.
But sometimes he felt as if the world around him were flat, as if he were moving across a smooth page in a math book that was covered in evenly spaced squares...
In fact his life was all right without his soul--he slept, ate, worked, drove a car and even played tennis.
Once upon a time there was a man who worked very hard and very quickly, and who had left his Soul far behind him long ago.
The only book in English for readers of all ages by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Olga Tokarczuk is a beautifully illustrated meditation on the fullness of life
