Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009) is a novel by Olga Tokarczuk, a literary thriller set in a remote Polish village near the Czech border. Janina Duszejko, an eccentric retired engineer who loves astrology and the poetry of William Blake, lives in the mountains and looks after summer homes. When members of the local hunting club begin to die in mysterious circumstances, she insists that the animals are taking revenge, while the police dismiss her.
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- Dua Lipa: “It's a crime novel, a call to arms and a philosophical interrogation with meditations on astrology all rolled into one.”
- Natalie Portman