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Drive your plow over the bones of the dead / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
Van Pelt Library PG7179.O37 P7613 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych. English
- Language:
- English
- Polish
- Subjects (All):
- Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities.
- Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
- Murder.
- Murder--Investigation.
- Poland--Fiction.
- Poland.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Mystery fiction.
- Suspense fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 274 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2020.
- Summary:
- "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. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . . "--Back cover.
- 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. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?
- Contents:
- Now pay attention
- Testosterone autism
- Perpetual light
- 999 deaths
- A light in the rain
- Trivia and banalities
- A speech to a poodle
- Uranus in Leo
- The largest in the smallest
- Cucujus haematodes
- The singing of the bats
- The vengeful beast
- The night archer
- The fall
- Saint Hubert
- The photograph
- The damsel.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych.
- Translated into English from the Polish.
- National Book Award Nominee for Translated Literature, 2019.
- BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Shortlist, 2020.
- Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee, 2021.
- International Booker Prize Nominee, 2019.
- Dublin Literary Award Nominee, 2020.
- Other Edition:
- Translation of: Tokarczuk, Olga Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, 2009
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- Drive your plow over the bones of the dead.
- ISBN:
- 9780525541349
- 0525541349
- OCLC:
- 1051776298
- Publisher Number:
- 90100002913
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