The Lost Soul

<p><strong>A beautifully illustrated meditation on the fullness of life for readers of all ages by <strong>by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Olga Tokarczuk.</strong><br /></strong></p> <p><strong>"Olga Tokarczuk's The Lost Soul, an experimental fable illustrated by Joanna Concejo and translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, resonates with our current moment....What a striking, and lovely, material object it is." &mdash;New York Times</strong></p> <p><strong>"The Lost Soul, by Olga Tokarczuk and illustrator Joanna Concejo, is a quiet meditation on happiness, following a busy man who loses his soul...It pours a childlike sense of wonder into a once-upon-a-time tale that is already resonating with adults around the world." &mdash;The Guardian</strong></p> <p>The Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflection on our capacity to live in peace with ourselves, to remain patient, attentive to the world. It is a story that beautifully weaves together the voice of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and the finely detailed pen-and-ink drawings of illustrator Joanna Concejo, who together create a parallel narrative universe full of secrets, evocative of another time. Here a man has forgotten what makes his heart feel full. He moves to a house away from all that is familiar to him to wait for his soul to return.</p> <p>"Once upon a time there was a man who worked very hard and very quickly, and who had left his soul far behind him long ago. In fact his life was all right without his soul&mdash;he slept, ate, worked, drove a car and even played tennis. But sometimes he felt as if the world around him were flat, as if he were moving across a smooth page in a math book that was covered in evenly spaced squares... " &mdash;from The Lost Soul</p> <p>The Lost Soul is a sublime album, a rare delicacy that will delight readers young and old.</p> <p>"You must find a place of your own, sit there quietly and wait for your soul."</p> <p>Winner of the Bologna Ragazzi Award, Special Mention 2018, Prix de l'Union Internationale pour les Livres de Jeunesse (IBBY), The White Raven (IJB Munich), and the Ł&oacute;dź Design Festival Award.</p>