Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (English) Paperback

Description: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, International Booker Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; shes 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 Europes 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 Tokarczuks native Poland. Author Biography Olga Tokarczuk is the author of nine novels, three short story collections and has been translated into thirty languages. Her novel Flights won the 2018 International Booker Prize, in Jennifer Crofts translation, and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead was shortlisted for International Booker Prize the following year. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019. Review A magnificent writer.— Svetlana Alexievich, 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Though the book functions perfectly as noir crime – moving towards a denouement that, for sleight of hand and shock, should draw admiration from the most seasoned Christie devotee – its chief preoccupation is with unanswerable questions of free will versus determinism, and with existential unease.... In Antonia Lloyd-Joness translation, the prose is by turns witty and melancholy, and never slips out of that distinctive narrative voice.... That this novel caused such a stir in Poland is no surprise. There, the political compass has swung violently to the right, and the rights of women and of animals are under attack (the novels 2017 film adaptation, Spoor, caused one journalist to remark that it was "a deeply anti-Christian film that promoted eco-terrorism"). It is an astonishing amalgam of thriller, comedy and political treatise, written by a woman who combines an extraordinary intellect with an anarchic sensibility.— Sarah Perry, GuardianOne among a very few signal European novelists of the past quarter-century.— The EconomistAspects of dark fantasy permeate Olga Tokarczuks grimly comic tale of death and vengeance, set in a remote forested plateau on the border between two realms, with a cast of intelligent animals, ghostly apparitions, celestial influence and humans who resemble trolls, witches, giants and goblins.... Translated with virtuosic precision and wit by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Tokarczuks prescient, provocative and furiously comic fiction seethes with a Blakean conviction of the cleansing power of rage: the vengeance of the weak when justice is denied.... [An] elegantly subversive novel.— Jane Shilling, New StatesmanDrive Your Plow is exhilarating in a way that feels fierce and private, almost inarticulable; its one of the most existentially refreshing novels Ive read in a long time.— Jia Tolentino, New YorkerAmusing, stimulating and intriguing ... [Drive Your Plow] might be likened to Fargo as rewritten by Thomas Mann, or a W. G. Sebald version of The Mousetrap.… Olga Tokarczuks previous novel, Flights ... was the winner of the Man Booker International Prize, for translated fiction, and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, though smaller in scale, will help confirm her position as the first Polish writer to command sustained Western attention since the end of the Cold War.— Leo Robson, The TelegraphJanina is such an unusual, engaging narrator that her nihilism is strangely cheering; this was one of the funniest books of the year.— Justine Jordan, Books of the Year 2018, GuardianStrange, mordantly funny, consoling and wise, Olga Tokarczuks novels fill the readers mind with intimations of a unique consciousness. Her latest novel to be translated into English, Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of The Dead is simultaneously unsettling and oddly companionable. Suffused with William Blake, astrological lore, and the landscapes of middle Europe, its both a meditation on human compassion and a murder mystery that lingers in the imagination.— Marcel Theroux, author of Strange BodiesI loved this wry, richly melancholic philosophical mystery. Its a compelling and endlessly thought-provoking novel, luminous with the strangeness of existence.— Megan Hunter, author of The End We Start From Author Comments A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald. -- Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News [ Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead ] is an astonishing amalgam of thriller, comedy and political treatise, written by a woman who combines an extraordinary intellect with an anarchic sensibility. -- Sarah Perry, the Guardian Tokarczuks novels, poems and short stories consistently open up unpredictable wonders and astonishments, and there isnt a genre that she cant subvert. ... Antonia Lloyd-Jones pulls off a flawless, intimate translation, even tackling the technically dazzling feat of presenting Blakes poems as translations from English into Polish, back into English. ... [ Drive Your Plow... ] will make you want to read everything that Tokarczuk has written. -- Financial Times Description for Sales People A subversive and entertaining noir novel from the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Details ISBN1913097250 Author Antonia Lloyd-Jones Pages 274 Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions Language English Year 2019 ISBN-10 1913097250 ISBN-13 9781913097257 Publication Date 2019-10-18 Format Paperback UK Release Date 2019-10-18 Imprint Fitzcarraldo Editions Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from Polish AU Release Date 2019-10-18 NZ Release Date 2019-10-18 Translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones Alternative 9781910695715 DEWEY 891.8538 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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