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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead A Novel

by Olga Tokarczuk

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288 pages2019PenguinISBN 9780525541332

About this book

<b>WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b><br> <b><br><b><i>New York Times </i>Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century</b> <br><br> "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —<i>Chicago Tribune</i><br><br> "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx</b><br><br>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 . . .<br><br>A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, <i>Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead </i>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?

Publication Details

Publisher
Penguin
Published
2019
Pages
288
ISBN
9780525541332
Language
en

About Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (ur. 29 stycznia 1962 w Sulechowie) – polska pisarka, eseistka, poetka i autorka scenariuszy, psycholożka, laureatka Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury za rok 2018, laureatka The Man Booker International Prize 2018 za powieść Bieguni oraz dwukrotna laureatka Nagrody Literackiej „Nike” za powieści: *Bieguni* (2008) i *Księgi Jakubowe* (2015). ---------- Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk ([tɔˈkart͡ʂuk]; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. In 2019, 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 has been awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize (translated by Jennifer Croft). Her works include Primeval and *Other Times, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead,* and *The Books of Jacob.* [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Tokarczuk)

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