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"Weird Tales" is the latest collection of novels by Olga Tokarczuk, the 2018 Nobel Prize winner for literature (awarded in 2019). The collection of novels is composed of ten stories: the green child in the forest, the various cans left behind by the mother after her death, the professor who was accidentally involved in a death case, "I" went to visit my sister who had undergone transfiguration surgery, the mysterious mummy in the monastery, and Monodice who resurrected after death every year... Each story is weird and absurd. It is difficult for you to guess what will happen on the next page, but under the weirdness there seems to be clues of human life hidden. The novel collection combines folklore, fairy tales, science fiction, religious stories and other elements to examine Polish history and people's lives. One year after the collection of novels was published, Tokarczuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature. This book also includes Tokarczuk's speech "The Gentle Narrator" when he received the Nobel Prize for Literature at the Swedish Academy and his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

Elna, a 15-year-old girl, suddenly fainted while eating. She heard various voices, saw a shadow swimming on the glass, a big tree growing in the room, and a man wearing a gold-rimmed monocle standing behind her younger brother... Only Erna's mother knew that this man was the long-dead grandfather whom Erna had never met. Erna's mother re-organized a mystical gathering at home. The gathering was attended by clerks from the death registration office of the city council, Jewish doctors, brain science researchers, and psychoanalysts... They sat around the table, holding hands, waiting for Erna to fall asleep, writing on the slate, and speaking intermittent words in different voices.

A collection of representative works by 2018 Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk. "House by Day, House by Night" tells the story of a border town, from the first pioneering knifemaker who settled here to the heroine and her husband moving to this countryside, the same land has different historical moments and different life migrations over the millennium. Various legendary figures appear here: a saint with a beard, a monk with a gender inversion, an alcoholic with a bird living in his body, a small-town teacher who transforms into a werewolf, an old lady with a wig who can hibernate, a woman who collects dreams on the Internet... The human world has undergone changes and ups and downs for thousands of years, but for the land, people's joys and sorrows, and the changes in people's generations are just a fleeting dream of the land. This is a wonderful novel that mixes multiple genres and intersperses multiple story lines. Short stories, essays, folk tales, hagiographies, and even recipes and notes are intertwined and presented. Each story is an exquisite short story, and when connected together, it becomes a wonderful novel full of foreshadowing and echoes. "The Ancient Times and Other Times" is a famous work by the famous contemporary Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk. The novel has a total of 84 chapters, each chapter is named after "xxx time". It tells the story of various characters in ancient times, even animals, plants and things, from different perspectives: a girl who touches the border of the world, a landowner addicted to puzzle games, a lonely housewife, an old woman who curses the moon, and even angels, water ghosts, pugs, mycelium, small coffee grinders... The life stories of three generations reflect the turbulent historical destiny of Poland in the 20th century. Primeval is a place, located at the center of the universe. Its four borders are guarded by four angels. The world beyond the ancient times does not exist. People who think they have stepped out of the ancient times are actually standing on the border and dreaming that they have entered the outside world. When they wake up, they go home and regard their dreams as memories. Borders also produce ready-made people, as if they came from the outside world...

The masterpiece of Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. Olga Tokarczuk is a famous contemporary Polish writer. "The Ancient Times and Other Times" is her famous work. The novel has a total of 84 chapters, each chapter is named after "xxx time". It tells the story of various characters in ancient times, even animals, plants and things, from different perspectives: a girl who touches the border of the world, a landowner addicted to puzzle games, a lonely housewife, an old woman who curses the moon, and even angels, water ghosts, pugs, mycelium, small coffee grinders... The life stories of three generations reflect the turbulent historical destiny of Poland in the 20th century. Primeval is a place, located at the center of the universe. Its four borders are guarded by four angels. The world beyond the ancient times does not exist. People who think they have stepped out of the ancient times are actually standing on the border and dreaming that they have entered the outside world. When they wake up, they go home and regard their dreams as memories. Borders also produce ready-made people, as if they came from the outside world...