The Last Stories

Six years later, a new novel by the great Polish prose writer Olga Tokarczuk is published. This book deals with the universal problems of man. It takes you to three worlds that are disturbing in their closeness and increasingly begin to dominate the reader's imagination. In the first assessment, these three stories are unrelated because they are shown in time and space independently of each other, showing the most secret corners of the soul of three closely related women in a highly colorful way. There are three completely different worlds, three different backgrounds, and one universal problem. The problem of death and passing away.

This is Tokarczuk's prose, more subdued, more contemplative, and even more intimate than her other earlier novels. The author perfectly draws women's characters authentically, sophisticatedly, and subtly. She presents the problem of the passing of time in human life. The book is wonderfully written, and although it is about women, about the female view of the world, it will also appeal to the male imagination.