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This is the fifth novel by Poland's Nobel laureate Tokarczuk (The Books of David) to be translated into English. Similarities with Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain abound. Tokarczuk's novel is about a tuberculosis sanatorium less than 400 miles from where Mann's tale is set and also in the same time period, before the start of the Great War, with a naive innocent, the observer, and men who like to talk more than act. But unlike Mountain, th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More