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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Hardcover

by Olga Tokarczuk
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Availability:In StockContributor:Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)Publish date:2019-08-13Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9780525541332ISBN-10:525541330UPC:9780525541332Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Crime, Literary, SatireAward:2019 Man Booker International Prize Nominee - Novel Award|2019 National Book Awards Nominee - Translation AwardSize:8.50 x 5.90 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCTSMZM4GC
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

"A brilliant literary murder mystery." --Chicago Tribune

"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

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?
Language:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9780525541332ISBN-10:525541330UPC:9780525541332Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Crime, Literary, SatireAward:2019 Man Booker International Prize Nominee - Novel Award|2019 National Book Awards Nominee - Translation AwardSize:8.50 x 5.90 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCTSMZM4GC
Olga Tokarczuk has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Book International Prize, among many other honors. She is the author of a dozen works of fiction, two collections of essays, and a children's book; her work has been translated into fifty languages.
Publisher: Riverhead Books

Awards

🏆 2019 Man Booker International Prize Nominee - Novel Award|2019 National Book Awards Nominee - Translation Award

Contributor(s)

Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)

Author

Olga Tokarczuk

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