Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
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- Paperback published on 13/09/2018
- Page count: 272 pages
- ISBN: 9781910695715
Quick take
In "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead," International Booker Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive and entertaining noir novel.
Why we love it
Where do we start with this dark and moody mystery? When animals start behaving strangely, Janina knows there’s more to the situation than meets the eye. Sick of being underestimated, she goes to great lengths to uncover the truth. Read it, read it now, we implore you!
Synopsis
With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken.
When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation. By no means a conventional crime story, this existential thriller by ‘one of Europe’s major humanist writers’ (Guardian) offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalized people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination – and caused a genuine political uproar in Tokarczuk’s native Poland.
About the author
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland.
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