There is a psychologist who seeks the imperfections of the world, and an anatomist who seeks the sources of his pain. A man who has lost his composure and a woman who believes that anxiety is sacred. A ruler who runs away from death and a professor who comes to meet her. This novel is like a map with many points between two poles: microcosm and macrocosm, preservation and loss, motionlessness and motion. Each of these points at first seems quite separate, and only by traveling from one to another, you can discover their inseparable connection. Olga Tokarchuk received the Polish Nike Award (2008) and the International Booker Prize (2018) for her novel Runners.
