Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead

Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, is set in a Polish village where recluse Janina studies astrology and reads William Blake until murders take place, and she tries to solve the mystery.

What Tomasz Says: "A good place to start exploring Tokarczuk’s world is this strange and brilliant novel about an old woman taking on the patriarchy with the mysterious help of the forest. I also adore its film adaptation, Spoor, directed by the great Agnieszka Holland."

What They Say: "Translated with virtuosic precision and wit by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Tokarczuk’s 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.... [An] elegantly subversive novel" — Jane Shilling

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