Who is worthy of a voice? ( From the publisher. If only anyone would pay her mind …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. At the center of 2018 Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s moving thriller is an oddball woman in her 60s.
As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Quotes Showing 1-30 of 248 You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves.
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. Although the book is well written and had some fun passages, it came off extremely preachy and repetitive. Im nearly done with the book and Im extremely disappointed. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead I picked up this book because it was a winner of the nobel prize for literature and the synopsis seemed intriguing.
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