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WINNER OF THE 2018 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, International Booker 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.
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Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk
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- Released
- 2020
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Olga Tokarczuk
- Publisher
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 274
- ISBN10
- 1913097250
- ISBN13
- 9781913097257
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Mystery & Thriller, Nature, Natural sciences, Animals, Thriller, Contemporary Fiction, Suspense, New Age & Spirituality, Murders, Death, Gifts for women, Adapted for Film, Violence, Astrology, Polish literature, Poland, Winter, Cold, Forests, Crimes, Nature Conservation, Poachers
- First published
- 2009
- Original title
- Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- WINNER OF THE 2018 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, International Booker 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.