Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead

De: Olga Tokarczuk

Narrado por: Antonia Lloyd-Jones

With Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel.

In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her 60s, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken.

When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation. By no means a conventional crime story, this existential thriller by ‘one of Europe’s major humanist writers’ (Guardian) offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalized people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination - and caused a genuine political uproar in Tokarczuk’s native Poland.

©2020 Olga Tokarczuk (P)2021 Fitzcarraldo Editions

Charming, endearing, thought-provoking

Loved this reading by the translator. She brought the characters to life with love and sensitivity. A new favourite!

Absolutely hilarious

Loved every second of this book. The narrator had excellent comedic timing, and I didn’t even know going into this, that it’s a murder mystery. It was just too good!