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.
Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
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