The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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“The Nobel Prize-winner returns with what has been described variously as ‘a satirical take’ and ‘a feminist twist’ on Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. In Tokarczuk’s version, an engineering student retires to a sanatorium for tuberculosis sufferers, in Silesia, 1913. Every evening, the residents gather to drink the local hallucinogenic liquor and debate life, the universe, and everything. But there’s something unsettling going on in the woods outside the walls.” Read more...
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