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The Empusium

novel by Tokarczuk

Also known as: “Empuzjon”

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discussed in biography

In Olga Tokarczuk: Novels and other works
…2024 she published Empuzjon (The Empusium), her first novel since winning the Nobel Prize. Set in a Polish sanitarium on the eve of World War I, the book is a subversive reimagining of Thomas Mann’s classic work The Magic Mountain (1924).
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