"House of Day, House of Night" Author: [Poland] Olga Tokarczuk Publisher: Sichuan People's Publishing House

Introduction
The new Nobel Prize winner in Literature, the International Booker Prize winner, the queen of Polish literature——
Olga Tokarczuk's representative work, introduced and published in mainland China for the first time.
In this fragmented novel of magical realism, the succession of human generations is just a fleeting dream of the land.
◎ Editor's Recommendation
☆ The author Olga Tokarczuk is the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature (awarded in October 2019). This book has been published 83 times in 25 countries and regions in 18 years. It also won the 1999 Nike Prize Readers' Choice Award, and the English translation was shortlisted for the 2004 Dublin Literary Award.
☆ It was listed as one of the ten recommended books by the "Magical Realism Reading Club" of National Taiwan University (directed by Luo Yijun) along with "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "The Sandalwood Death".
☆ Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich (author of Second-hand Time) called him a "brilliant writer" and regarded as a fellow rebellious traveler.
☆ This is a multi-layered, multi-plot novel composed of more than one hundred features, stories, and essays. Each story is an exquisite short story, and together they form a wonderful novel full of foreshadowing and echoes. The intricate narrative method brings readers the pleasure of reading like solving a puzzle.
☆ Easy to understand yet profound, simple yet philosophical, meaningful yet not gloomy. In Tokarczuk's novels, daily life acquires a rare density, full of internal complexity, fierce contradictions and conflicts, as well as intriguing twists and turns and turbulent drama.
☆ Marquez's history, Szymborska's time, and Jelinek's cultural identity are combined in Tokarczuk's pen.
☆ The cover is printed on both sides, one side is "House during the Day" and the other side is "House at Night".
◎ Introduction
"House of Day, House of Night" tells the story of a small border town, from the first knife maker who settled here to the heroine and her husband who moved to this countryside. The same land has experienced different historical moments and different life migrations over the past thousand years. Various legendary characters appear here: a saint with a beard, a monk with gender inversion, a drunkard with a bird living in his body, a town teacher who turns into a werewolf, an old lady who makes wigs and hibernates, and a woman who collects dreams on the Internet... Over the past thousand years, the world has undergone vicissitudes and ups and downs, but for the land, people's joys and sorrows, and the succession of generations are nothing more than a fleeting dream of the land.
This is a wonderful novel that mixes multiple genres and interweaves multiple story lines, including short stories, essays, folk tales, saint biographies, and even recipes and notes. Each story is an exquisite short story, and together they form a wonderful novel full of foreshadowing and echoes.
◎ Celebrity recommendation
A brilliant writer.
—— SA Alexievich (Nobel Prize winner in Literature, author of Second-hand Time)
Dreams, the dreams of people in dreams, or the streets in the real world outside dreams that shine with the light of dreams, from the outside, inside, above and below, weave and patch together such a wonderful book that pulls readers into the position of God's vision, overlooking the surging dreams that occur, bloom or fade one after another.
—— Luo Yijun (author of "Xixia Hotel")
◎ Media Recommendation
Her narrative, rich in encyclopedic passion and imagination, represents a form of life that transcends boundaries.
—— The Swedish Academy, the Nobel Prize in Literature selection organization
Tokarczuk's prose writing is simple and plain. She tells stories in a very natural tone, easily expressing the hope, monotony and absurdity of the world she writes about. She interweaves imagination with real life, mixes dreams into reality, and overlaps memories with the present, and does it seamlessly.
——The Observer
Her first book translated into English, House of Day, House of Night, also has a mysterious appeal in 2002. All her novels reflect the complex history of Poland re-imagined, and her realism is extremely magical realism.
——The Guardian
◎ Award record
★ The author won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature (awarded in 2019)
★ Won the 1999 Nike Award Readers' Choice Award
★ The English translation was shortlisted for the 2004 Dublin Literary Award