Finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize.
Who is worthy of a voice?.
Whom do we deem sane? it asks.
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. . .
If only anyone would pay her mind .
As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit.
Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances.
Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead.
Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals Over humans. --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.
My sincere admiration for her brilliant work.
Tokarczuk\'s novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. -- Chicago Tribune Extraordinary.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A brilliant literary murder mystery.
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, and autonomy and fate.
Finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize
