Playing on many drums

Is there a line between reality and fiction, sanity and madness, serious business and play? And is there anything at all that defines the boundaries of things and each individual "I"? In these stories of Olga Tokarchuk, realistic and phantasmagoric, everything is possible except for a clear hierarchy, predetermined and usual. If you listen to the drums, which are as diverse as the stories in the collection, you can become someone else for a while or all of them at the same time. This is one of the beautiful properties of literature.