| Record Number |
800059 |
| ISBN |
9781910695715 (paperback) |
| Author |
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- author. |
| Title |
Drive your plow over the bones of the dead / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. |
| Edition |
Fourth edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018. |
| ©2018 |
| Pagination etc. |
269 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Contents note |
Originally published in Polish as Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych by Wydawnictwo Literackie. |
| Summary Note |
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 marginalised people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination - and caused a genuine political uproar in Tokarczuk's native Poland. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Polish. |
| Subject |
Older women -- Fiction |
| Retired teachers -- Fiction |
| Villages -- Poland -- Fiction |
| Pet loss -- Fiction |
| Dogs -- Fiction |
| Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction |
| Human-animal relationships -- Fiction |
| Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction |
| Animal rights -- Fiction |
| Poland -- Fiction |
| Added Author |
Lloyd-Jones, Antonia translator. |
| Shelf Location |
F TOKA |
