Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A NovelWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "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 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? |
Contents
Now Pay Attention | 1 |
Testosterone Autism | 17 |
Perpetual Light | 35 |
Deaths | 45 |
A Light in the Rain | 61 |
Trivia and Banalities | 81 |
A Speech to a Poodle | 95 |
Uranus in Leo | 111 |
Cucujus Haematodes | 145 |
The Singing of Bats | 159 |
The Vengeful Beast | 179 |
The Night Archer | 193 |
The Fall | 211 |
Saint Hubert | 227 |
The Photograph | 253 |
The Damsel | 267 |
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