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Drive your plow over the bones of the dead

Tokarczuk, Olga 1962- (author.). Lloyd-Jones, Antonia (translator.).

Summary: 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?

Record details

ISBN: 0525541330
ISBN: 9780525541332
Physical Description: 274 pages ; 22 cm
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Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York, New York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.
Copyright: ©2018

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General Note:

"First published as Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych by Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków. English-language edition first published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London. A portion of this book was published, in different form, in Granta (138, Journeys) in 2017."--Title page verso.