What is the effect of the books format on the experience of reading it?
Why do you think Tokarczuk chose to focus on the topics of travel and human anatomy? Do you think she creates a link between the two?
Unusual for the precedence set by the rest of the book, Tokarczuk returns to the topic of Angelo Soliman throughout, a real-life figure whose unfortunate treatment after death is the premise of her writing. Why do you think Tokarczuk chose to include and return to this tale in particular? What attitudes does this shine a light on? Why did she choose to withhold the information that the mummy was destroyed in a fire in the 1800s?
What effect does the cliff-hanger-like nature of Tokarczuk’s selections have?
How does philosophy play a part in Tokarczuk’s writing?
Some sections of the novel are quiet graphic — did you find any of the writing too gruesome and if so, did this enhance or take away from your experience?
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