Olga Tokarczuk - Casa de Dia, Casa de Noite

Casa de Dia, Casa de Noite, Olga Tokarczuk’s first constellation novel, won the Günter Grass Prize and the Nike Prize even before the author received the Nobel Prize.

Life in the small town of Nowa Ruda, located in the heart of Europe, in a territory of passage and unstable borders, where peoples, wars, and regimes come and go, is not as simple as it seems. Its most recent Polish inhabitants occupied the houses left empty by the Germans fleeing at the end of the war, and in the surrounding forests, there are many secrets hidden beneath the earth. With the help of Marta, her old and wise neighbor, the narrator of this novel, newly arrived in the city, gathers the surprising stories of this place, weaving a tapestry of myths, dreams, and anecdotal episodes, which often transcend the visible and the rational, blending past and present.