Lost soul | olga tokarczuk

Once upon a time there was a man who worked very hard and very quickly, and who had left his soul far behind him long ago.

In fact his life was all right without his soul - he slept, ate, worked, drove a car and even played tennis.

But sometimes he felt as if the world around him were flat, as if he were moving across a smooth page in a math book that was covered in evenly spaced squares.

- from The Lost SoulThe Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflection on our capacity to live in peace with ourselves, to remain patient and attentive to the world.

It is a story that beautifully weaves together the voice of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and the finely detailed pen-and-ink drawings of illustrator Joanna Concejo, who together create a parallel narrative universe full of secrets, evocative of another time.

The Lost Soul is a sublime album, a rare delicacy that will delight readers young and old.