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. 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 Mary Cotton, Newtonville Books, Newton Centre, MA This book is genius and oh so satisfying.”
Olga Tokarczuk’s comic timing is surprising and delightful in this rural noir set in Poland and featuring astrology, William Blake, revenge-seeking animals, and an entire cast of characters unlike you have ever seen before. “This book is bonkers and I am so in love with it - one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. Cindy Pauldine, The River's End Bookstore, Oswego, NY Winter 2020 Reading Group Indie Next List Don’t miss this excellent translated work from an award-winning writer!” The ending of this hard-to-categorize novel, a finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize, will knock the breath out of you. This is an extraordinary and disturbing tale - a mystery that becomes more complex as the story continues, accompanied by Janina’s often witty observations on man, nature, justice, and identity. As the bodies mount, so does her involvement with the mystery, although her status as a crank and possible madwoman ensures that she’s ignored. When hunters and poachers begin to be gruesomely murdered, Janina informs the police that the animals are responsible. “Janina is an eccentric middle-aged woman who translates William Blake, studies astrology, and is acutely attuned to the wilderness around her in rural Poland.
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