Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk
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Genre: Literary Fiction
Length: 288 Pages (Hardcover)
Audiobook: 11 Hours, 39 Minutes
Publication Date: November 25, 2009 / August 11, 2020 (Paperback)
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Publisher’s Description
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . .
A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk is published by Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House).
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk includes content that may be sensitive, emotional, or difficult for some readers (e.g., death, murder, animal cruelty, and other topics). For reader-submitted content warnings, view them on StoryGraph.
About Olga Tokarczuk
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. She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for “a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”.
For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. For Flights and The Books of Jacob, she won the Nike Awards, Poland’s top literary prize, among other accolades; she won the Nike audience award five times.
Her works have been translated into almost 40 languages, making her one of the most translated contemporary Polish writers. The Books of Jacob, regarded as her magnum opus, was released in the UK in November 2021 after seven years of translation work, followed by release in the US in February 2022. In March that year, the novel was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.
Read more about Olga Tokarczuk here.
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