Bieguni with delivery to Ireland

One of the most talked-about and widely discussed novels of recent years.

The first Polish book to be honoured with the Man Booker International Prize, it also received the Nike Literary Award in 2008 and was nominated for the 2018 National Book Award.



What do we have in common with the Bieguni – an Orthodox offshoot of the Old Believers, people who tame evil through movement? How much of the Bieguni is there in us?



From old sultans' palaces through seventeenth-century cabinets of curiosities to modern departure halls, Olga Tokarczuk takes readers on an extraordinary journey through different places and times. She invites us to tame a shimmering, fragmentary reality together, and to abandon well-trodden paths.

This novel has no borders – it takes place all over the world.



"What is a novel? The book by the winner of the International Booker Prize reads like an incisive answer to precisely this question (…). Bieguni has the fragmentary quality typical of an intimate diary and a marriage of magic with an atmosphere of wonder. It is a surprising, funny journey to the most elusive of places – the essence of humanity."