Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead

Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead

EnglishPaperback / softback
Tokarczuk Olga
Fitzcarraldo Editions
EAN: 9781910695715
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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.

EAN 9781910695715
ISBN 1910695718
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publication date September 12, 2018
Pages 272
Language English
Dimensions 195 x 127
Country United Kingdom
Readership General
Authors Tokarczuk Olga
Translators Lloyd-Jones Antonia