![]() ![]() The dentist's voice and how he's a little tipsy is so believable. The exchange between Duszejko and the President's wife is powerful. She voiced all the characters so perfectly that it took me back to the old country and all the people from those small villages that actually do sound like that. The performance of the narrator is so authentic and as good as it can get. I read this book (and other Olga Tokarczuk's work) many years ago in Polish, in it's original language. If only anyone would pay her mind.Ī 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. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. Soon, other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. Then, a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. 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. ![]() My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." (Annie Proulx) ![]() ![]() Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. "A brilliant literary murder mystery." ( Chicago Tribune ) ![]()
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