Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

At the center of 2018 Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s moving thriller is an oddball woman in her 60s who has inserted herself into the police investigation of a string of murders. Her middle-of-nowhere Polish hunting town has recently been ravaged by killings—and she thinks it has something to do with the animals her fellow townspeople have been slaughtering. A blend of fairy tale and murder mystery, Tokarczuk explores how we assign privilege and sanity to some over others as her astrology-obsessed, animal-loving protagonist demands to be heard.

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