Lee Langley

Mysteries and misogyny: The Empusium, by Olga Tokarczuk, reviewed

Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann’s masterpiece The Magic Mountain in this ‘health resort horror story’ set in a Silesian guesthouse on the eve of the first world war

Olga Tokarczuk. [Getty Images]

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