The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

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A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone . elegant and genuinely unsettling. -The New York Times Book Review

The Nobel Prize winner's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas

September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of G rbersdorf, 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.

SKU	CIN0593712943G
ISBN 13	9780593712948
ISBN 10	0593712943
Title	The Empusium
Author	Olga Tokarczuk
Condition	Good
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2024-09-24
Number of pages	320
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