The Empusium LGBT+Author: Olga Tokarczuk Translator: Antonia Lloyd Jones Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Paperback One of our books of the year 2024 Enya says: Dubbed by Tokarczuk as a retelling of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, The Empusium unfolds into a trippy read, where protagonist Hans Castorp, a 24 year old sanitation engineer arrives at Grbersdorf sanitarium with a mild case of TB. With forests floors covered in psychedelic mushrooms, crones and strange behaviour at
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