“Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post“Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade-defining book akin to Bolano’s 2666.” –AV Club“Sophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit. . . The comedy in this novel blends, as it does in life, with genuine tragedy.” –Dwight Garner, The New York TimesThe Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a...