6/22/2023 0 Comments Drive your plow over the bonesThe people around her don’t find her quite as amusing the police brush her off as a crazy old lady. As more bodies pile up, Janina inserts herself into the investigations. Tokarczuk’s protagonist is delightfully specific: she studies astrology, translates William Blake’s poetry and makes bizarre proclamations (“I must always wash my feet thoroughly before bed”). Part murder mystery, part fairy tale, Drive Your Plow is a thrilling philosophical examination of the ways in which some living creatures are privileged above others. And his demise is just the beginning of this winding, imaginative, genre-defying story. Drive Your Plow, originally published in Polish in 2009, follows Janina, who is passionate about animal rights and at odds with the many hunters in her community–including, before his death, Big Foot. The novel is short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize, which Tokarczuk last year became the first Polish writer to win, for her novel Flights. The relationship between animals and humans lies at the center of Drive Your Plow.
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