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Drive your plow over the bones of the dead

Olga Tokarczuk
ID 360497
Slug drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead-2
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Description WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE<br></br> <br></br> "A brilliant literary murder mystery." -Chicago Tribune<br></br><br></br> "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." -Annie Proulx<br></br><br></br>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 . . .<br></br><br></br>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?
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300 Literaire fictie algemeen NUR
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Publisher Penguin US
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Language eng
Page count 288
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Publication date first 2019-07-02
Publication date latest 2019-09-30
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  • ISBN: 9780593086407 (BC)

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