The empusium : a health resort horror story
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First United States edition.
"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.
Available copies
- 7 of 25 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
7 current holds with 25 total copies.View other formats and editions
| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rye Free Reading Room | FICTION TOKARCZUK (Text) New Fiction |
31028153626308 |
Available - |
| Somers Library | FICTION TOKARCZUK (Text) New Fiction |
31031152208201 |
In transit - |
| The Field Library | TOKARCZUK, O. (Text) New Fiction |
31022152474349 |
Checked out 12/19/2024 |
| White Plains Public Library | FICTION (Text) New Book |
31544101595817 |
Checked out 12/24/2024 |
| Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library | FIC/Tokarczuk (Text) New Fiction |
31035710097741 |
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