“The hardest thing about Olga Tokarczuk’s amazing genre-defying novel Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead is knowing how to describe it. It’s a crime novel, but much more than a mere whodunnit. It’s also a call to arms, a philosophical interrogation that is peppered with surreal mediations on astrology, and a story that will make your blood boil while simultaneously warming your heart.
“When a local hunter on a remote Polish plateau chokes on a deer bone one winter evening, his death is shocking but easily explained. But when other members of the local hunting fraternity also start showing up dead, things start to get weird.
“I loved Janina Duszejko, the opinionated and eccentric protagonist whose fixations on the radical 18th century poet William Blake, the rights of animals, and the use of astrology to solve crimes take this book in unexpected directions at every turn. Darkly humorous, deadly serious, and with a quirky cast of characters that will stay with you forever, this is definitely not to be missed. The author won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and when you read this novel you’ll see why” – Dua Lipa
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