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Discuss art, life, culture and creativity at the monthly Members Book Club. From January to May, titles on the reading list will connect to ideas presented in the exhibition ‘Air’.

Flights (2007) by Olga Tokarczuk

Session 1: Thu 18 May, 10.30am | Members Lounge, QAG

Session 2: Sat 27 May, 3.00pm | Members Lounge, QAG

From Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin’s heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveller, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time.

Ticket includes light refreshments. Members receive 20% off current and past Book Club titles from the QAGOMA Store.

January–May reading list

• Cloud Cuckoo Land (2021) by Anthony Doerr

• Swallow the Air (2021) by Tara June Winch

• Into Thin Air (1997) by Jon Krakauer

• Against Nature (À rebours) (1884) by Joris Huysmans

• Flights (2007) by Olga Tokarczuk

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