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Also by Olga Tokarczuk:

House of Day, House of Night, December 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Empusium, October 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
The Books of Jacob, February 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Flights, August 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, August 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, August 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)

The Empusium
Olga Tokarczuk

A Health Resort Horror Story

Riverhead Books
October 2024
On Sale: September 24, 2024
320 pages
ISBN: 0593712943
EAN: 9780593712948
Kindle: B0CQWWN42G
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller | Mystery

The Nobel Prize winner’s latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas

September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone—or something—seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target.
 
A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humor, and bravura.

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