Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead - Softcover

Olga Tokarczuk; Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910695718 ISBN 13: 9781910695715

Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

'A magnificent writer.' --Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate 2015

'A writer on the level of W.G.Sebald.'- Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News

'Strange, mordantly funny, consoling and wise, Olga Tokarczuk's novels fill the reader's mind with intimations of a unique consciousness. Her latest novel to be translated into English, Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of The Dead is simultaneously unsettling and oddly companionable. Suffused with William Blake, astrological lore, and the landscapes of middle Europe, it's both a meditation on human compassion and a murder mystery that lingers in the imagination.' --Marcel Theroux, author of Strange Bodies

'I loved this wry, richly melancholic philosophical mystery. It's a compelling and endlessly thought-provoking novel, luminous with the strangeness of existance.'- Megan Hunter, author of The End We Start From

'One among a very few signal European novelists of the past quarter-century.' --The Economist

About the Author:

Olga Tokarczuk is one of Poland s best and most beloved authors. Her novel Flights won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize, in Jennifer Croft s translation. In 2015 she received the Brueckepreis and the prestigious annual literary award from Poland s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, as well as Poland s highest literary honour, the Nike and the Nike Readers Prize. Tokarczuk also received a Nike in 2009 for Flights. She is the author of nine novels, three short story collections and has been translated into a dozen languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1910695718
• ISBN 13: 9781910695715
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272