Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Wouldn’t you grab this selection for the title alone?! Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk was a short, but satisfying read. Not Nobel to me, but who can account for taste? Amazon: “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 . . .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?” I recommend if you are looking for a good story with a short burn.

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