Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel by Olga Tokarczuk (English)

Description: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk A subversive, entertaining noir novel from the winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A subversive, entertaining noir novel from one of Polands most important writers and the winner of the 2018 Man Booker International PrizeDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead takes place in a remote Polish village, where Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, she becomes involved in the investigation. Duszejko 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.Filled with wonderful characters like Oddball, Big Foot, Black Coat, Dizzy and Boros, this subversive, entertaining noir novel, by one of Europes major humanist writers (Guardian), offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalised people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination -- and getting away with murder. Author Biography Olga Tokarczuk is one of Polands best and most beloved authors. In 2015 she received the German-Polish International Bridge Prize, as well as Polands highest literary honour, the Nike and the Nike Readers Prize. She also received a Nike in 2009 for her novel Flights, which won the Man Booker International Prize in 2018. Review A magnificent writer. * Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate 2015 *A strongly voiced existential thriller. * Guardian *A moral thriller that will keep you guessing until its very last page. * Culture.pl *This dazzling writer...feels the heartbeat of the natural world…one of the exhilarations of this novel is working through a complex truth about living among others. * Monthly *Antonia Lloyd-Jones...has once again done a remarkable job of capturing the uncanny distinction of Tokarczuks prose in English. There is much to admire in this book and even more to learn. * Irish Times *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. * New Statesman *Entering Mrs. Duszejkos rich, eccentric world is like waking up in Oz, or falling into Wonderland. Everything, from the unreliable mobile phone signal to the patterns of the wind, is attributed character and motivation, so that the whole universe shimmers with intent, agency and hidden meaning. * Big Issue *Tokarczuks style, combining wit, uncanny metaphor, biological truth and metaphysical profundity, is unique. Her books reveal just how good literature can be. * Saturday Paper *An astonishing amalgam of thriller, comedy and political treatise, written by a woman who combines an extraordinary intellect with an anarchic sensibility. * Guardian *Sardonic humour and gothic plot-twists add a layer of macabre rustic comedy. Antonia Lloyd-Jones, an outstanding Polish-English translator, sculpts Janinas English voice (complete with Blakean capitalisations) with panache. * Economist *Not your typical crime fiction...especially as each chapter carries an epigraph from William Blake. * Times *Drive Your Plow casts a mythical spell over a chilly psychological thriller. It is so tantalisingly written, its developments so precisely but invisibly measured out, that I found myself far more likely to forget about the reviewing than the reading...a really good book can change the way we see things...Drive Your Plow unequivocally excels at this. * Review 31 *[Flights is] a guide to living. Every word, observation, reflection and story embraces the importance of staying mobile in thought as much as in being…This is as brilliant and life-affirming as literature gets. * Saturday Paper, on Flights *...darkly funny, politically charged, fiercely feminist, and occasionally just a little bit weird, and its a wonderful salute to both Lloyd-Jones sensitive translation and Tokarczuks outspoken beliefs. * AU Review *Skilfully translated by prize winning Antonia Lloyd-Jones, the book illustrates the manipulative, political power of word and phrasing. * Stuff.co.nz *Olga Tokarczuk is a masterful storyteller who challenges expectations of what a story can be. * Age *[A] mordant mix of whodunit, astrology, and the poetry of William Blake. * Adelaide Advertiser *Ridiculous and existentially challenging by turns, this is a wildly inventive book. * Overland *This book is a wild ride, full of harsh judgments and sharp-tongued language, until the surprise end. * Australian *Drive 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. * New Yorker *A noir murder mystery that is less whodunnit than it is existential inquiry...Antonia Lloyd-Joness translation from Polish sparkles. * Millions *A barbed and subversive tale about what it takes to challenge the complacency of the powers that be. * Boston Globe *[A] marvelously weird and fablelike mystery...This book is not a mere whodunit: Its a philosophical fairy tale about life and death thats been trying to spill its secrets. * New York Times *It is a murder mystery, and therefore it rattles along, but its also a philosophical contemplation on mans relationship with the natural world, and our relationships to those that we deem to be marginal—at the edge of society—and how we react to them…Its a fantastically rich book. * Five Books *A blend of fairy tale and murder mystery, Tokarczuk explores how we assign privilege and sanity to some over others as her astrology-obsessed, animal-loving protagonist demands to be heard. * TIME *I thrilled to this story—a dark, strange, comic, twisted masterpiece...Its a great narrative voice, and I loved the book from the first page. * Elizabeth Gilbert *Brilliant, black-comic, eccentric writing. A novelist I only recently discovered, who is fully worthy of her Nobel Prize. * Salman Rushdie *Tokarczuk raises essential questions about whose voices are privileged above others. * TIME *A genre-defying novel, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is part investigative thriller and part fairytale, with biting social critique and a wicked sense of humor. * Book Riot *Wonderfully weird...Despite its highbrow laurels, Tokarczuks novel reads more like a Slavic episode of Murder, She Wrote than a literary homework assignment. * Chatelaine *A dark and fun mystery, a feminist comedy, plus a primer on existentialism and animal rights. Its the mix of high and low, humor and darkness that makes Tokarczuk such a remarkable chronicler of range of human emotions. * Literary Hub *Crackling with energy and wholly original, Olga Tokarczuk dazzles with this literary thriller that is both ecofeminist manifesto and page-turning whodunit...This book is fierce and essential, fundamentally challenging how we perceive the world. * Powells *Haunting and beautifully written. * CrimeReads *[A] wonderful Polish thriller and dark feminist comedy. * Sisters in Crime *Tocarczuk is one of the greats. Drive Your Plow has one of the strangest narrators in literature, a kooky solitary with a Blake and astronomy obsession. Like Herzog, she sends long letters to people. Another genre defying masterpiece. * Rabih Alameddine, Lit Hub *While it adopts the straightforward structure of a murder mystery, [the book features] macabre humor and morbid philosophical interludes [that] are distinctive to its author. . . [and an] excellent payoff at the finale. . . . As for Ms. Tokarczuk, theres no doubt: Shes a gifted, original writer, and the appearance of her novels in English is a welcome development. * Wall Street Journal *A paean to nature. . . a sort of ode to Blake. . . [and] a lament. . . Does Tokarczuk transcend Blake? Arguable —perhaps. * NPR *A brilliant literary murder mystery. * Chicago Tribune *Shimmering with subversive brilliance . . . . this is not your conventional crime story—for Tokarczuk is not your conventional writer. Through her extraordinary talent and intellect, and her thinking novels, she ponders and tackles larger ecological and political issues. The stakes are always high; Tokarczuk repeatedly rises to the occasion and raises a call to arms. * HuffPost *Sometimes the opening sentence of a first-person narrative can so vividly capture the personality of its speaker that you immediately want to spend all the time you can in their company. Thats the case with . . . Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead . . . [a] barbed and subversive tale about what it takes to challenge the complacency of the powers that be. * Boston Globe * Promotional A subversive, entertaining noir novel from one of Polands most important writers and the winner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize Prizes Short-listed for European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Literature Prize 2019 Short-listed for Man Booker International Prize 2019 (UK) Short-listed for Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2019 (Australia) Short-listed for PEN Translation Prize 2020 (United States) Long-listed for National Book Awards, Translated Literature 2019 (United States) Long-listed for International Dublin Literary Award 2020 (Ireland) Long-listed for PEN Translation Prize 2019 (United States) Review Quote A magnificent writer. Promotional "Headline" A subversive, entertaining noir novel from one of Polands most important writers and the winner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize Description for Sales People * Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is set in a remote village in south-west Poland and follows an eccentric woman as she describes events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. When members of a local hunting club are subsequently found murdered, she becomes involved in the investigation. * An unconventional crime story as well as a subtle commentary on the highly conservative parts of rural Poland, the novel offers some fascinating ideas on our perceptions on madness, social injustice against marginalised people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion and our belief in fate. * Filled with marvelous characters with names like Big Foot, Black Coat and Maladroit, the story poses the question: what does it take to get away with murder? * Olga Tokarzcuk is the best-selling author of eight other novels and a former therapist who is said to believe that everything that happens in the world results from a mysterious series of connections and that human beings are not as free as they would like to think. * Olga has been hailed as one of Europes major humanist writers by the Guardian * For fans of Milan Kundera, this moral thriller will keep you guessing until the very last page Details ISBN1925773086 Author Olga Tokarczuk Year 2018 ISBN-10 1925773086 ISBN-13 9781925773088 Format Paperback Publication Date 2018-10-01 Imprint The Text Publishing Company Place of Publication Melbourne Country of Publication Australia Language English Translated from Polish Pages 256 Publisher Text Publishing Short Title Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead Subtitle A Novel DEWEY 891.8/537 Translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones Alternative 9781925774009 Audience General NZ Release Date 2018-09-30 AU Release Date 2018-10-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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