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The empusium : a health resort horror story / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
"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." --Amazon.com.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593712948
- ISBN: 0593712943
- Physical Description: 300 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First United States edition.
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "Originally published in Poland as Empuzjon, by Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, in 2022." --Title page verso.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from the Polish.
- Awards Note:
- Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Poland > Fiction. - Genre:
- Thrillers (Fiction)
Horror fiction.
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Novels.
Available copies
- 21 of 24 copies available at Westchester Library System.
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- 1 current hold with 24 total copies.
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| John C. Hart Memorial Library | TOKARCZUK (Text) | 31030300066222 | New Fiction | Available | - |
| Katonah Village Library | FICTION TOKARCZUK (Text) | 31013152071854 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Larchmont Public Library | TOKARCZUK (Text) | 31014152609024 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Mount Kisco Public Library | FICTION TOKARCZUK (Text) | 31017152054489 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Mount Pleasant Public Library | FIC TOKARCZUK (Text) | 31024153524395 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Mount Vernon Public Library | FICTION TOKARCZUK (Text) | 31018155746949 | Fiction | Available | - |
| New Rochelle Public Library | TOKARCZUK (Text) | 31019154271517 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Ossining Public Library | FICTION (Text) | 31021153882716 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Pound Ridge Library District | FIC TOKARCZUK (Text) | 31026151197728 | Fiction | Checked out | 07/14/2025 |
| Rye Free Reading Room | FICTION TOKARCZUK (Text) | 31028153626308 | Fiction | Available | - |