Secrets that, if you’ve kept your ear to the ground, you knew in your bones all along.” - New York Times Book Review This book is not a mere whodunit: It’s a philosophical fairy tale about life and death that’s been trying to spill its secrets. They are more like little cuts - quick, exacting and purposefully belated in their bleeding. her asides are never desultory or a liability. But even as Tokarczuk sticks landing after landing. are rarely also masters of pacing and suspense. Authors with Tokarczuk’s vending machine of phrasing. “A marvelously weird and fablelike mystery. Warwick Prize for Women in Translation shortlist Named a best book of 2019 by TIME, NPR, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and BookRiot. Who is worthy of a voice?ĭrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel
Ī 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. 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.
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." -Annie Proulx Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. "A brilliant literary murder mystery." - Chicago Tribune
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