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Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead

By: Olga Tokarczuk
Narrated by: Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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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 60s, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s 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 Europe’s 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 Tokarczuk’s native Poland.

©2020 Olga Tokarczuk (P)2021 Fitzcarraldo Editions Crime Fiction Fiction International Mystery & Crime Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Detective Crime
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I understand the narration is an artistic choice, but in this case it makes the writing hard to take in. It’s great writing too, which makes it all the more frustrating the narrator sounds like a knock off Miss Marple. A shame.

Narration gets in the way.

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Brilliant representation of a fully formed woman with a caustic wit and a mission. I absolutely loved it.

Loved this spiky protagonist

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Brilliant, both the narration and the book. Dark, absorbing and utterly original. The narrator deserves special praise as incredibly she is also the translator from Polish. She performed both tasks with flair, really bringing Mrs Duszejko to life in a sparkling translation.
The witty and isolated astrologer, outraged at the barbarity of men, will stay with me a long time.

Darkly comic masterpiece

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The storyline was very quirky and original - quite unexpected murder mystery. I loved the characters, especially the narrator. I also loved the descriptions of the settings. The performance was great, just how I imagined the narrator to be.

Quirky and atmospheric

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The narration was perfect for the character, I am so glad I chose this audio as I could not have done it better in my own head! This is now one of my favourite books.

Wonderful, whimsical, weird

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