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Author:
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- author.
Title:
Drive your plow over the bones of the dead / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Antonia Lloyd Jones.
Publisher:
Fitzcarraldo Editions,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
269 pages ; 20 cm
Subject:
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Retired teachers--Fiction.
Retired women--Fiction.
Kłodzka Basin (Poland)--Fiction.
Other Authors:
Lloyd-Jones, Antonia, translator.
Other Titles:
Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych. English
Summary:
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{u2019}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 {u2018}one of Europe{u2019}s major humanist writers{u2019} (Guardian) offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalized people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination {u2013} and caused a genuine political uproar in Tokarczuk{u2019}s native Poland. -- From publisher's website.
ISBN:
1910695718
9781910695715
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1056527564
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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