Name: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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Author: Olga Tokarczuk
ISBN: 9781913097257

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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Type

Physical Book

Author

Olga Tokarczuk

Publisher

Fitzcarraldo Editions

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

274

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

197 x 115 x 17 (mm)

ISBN13

9781913097257

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Synopsis "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead "

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019

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.

By no means a conventional crime story, this existential thriller by 'one of Europe's major humanist writers' 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.

Olga Tokarczuk

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Olga Tokarczuk, one of the best and most celebrated current Polish writers, has received the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 2019, and has been honored with awards such as the Brueckepreis or the Nike, the most prestigious in her country. Author of nine novels and three storybooks, her works have been translated into forty-five languages and have earned her recognition from colleagues like Annie Proulx ("A writer of the caliber of W. G. Sebald") or Svetlana Alexievich ("A magnificent writer").

At Anagrama she has published A Place Called Antaño: "Tokarczuk is as skilled in character creation as she is in plot articulation, creating a universe where facts are sprinkled with philosophical reflections and bursts of lyricism" (Rafael Narbona, El Mundo); The Wanderers, International Man Booker Prize 2018 and finalist of the National Book Award in the category of translated books: "A beautiful book about the need to cross borders to know something more about ourselves" (Rafael Narbona, El Mundo); "A constellation-novel" (Marta Rebón, El País); "Fascinating, genre-less book" (Mercedes Monmany, ABC); "An inexhaustible book" (Domingo Ródenas de Moya, El Periódico); "Perhaps we are facing the best travel book ever written" (Antonio Lozano, La Vanguardia); "A vibrant mosaic of stories" (Pablo Martínez Zarracina, El Correo); "A great and joyful read" (Santiago Aizarna, El Diario Vasco); and The Books of Jacob: "A work that demands to be read on the same terms as War and Peace" (Tim Smith-Laing, The Telegraph). Her most recent novel is Land of Empusas.

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