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Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

The Empusium

By Olga Tokarczuk, Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk looses her deft, dark satirical wit on the rigid patriarchal world of pre-World War I Europe. The result is an enchanting, unsettling bildungsroman like nothing you’ve read before.

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