Plow Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

In a remote Polish village, Janina spends the dark winter days studying astrology, studying star charts, translating the poems of William Blake, and He spends his time watching over the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. He prefers to spend time with animals instead of people, and his extremely strange and reclusive behavior is considered "wacky" by some. One day, his neighbor Bigfoot is mysteriously found dead. The coming days will bring even more strange deaths. As suspicions and question marks rise, Janina puts herself at the center of the investigation with her strange theories. If only someone had listened to him, would everything have been like this?

Plow Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a strange tale of tension, a black comedy, a unique story in every way. A provocative exploration of the dark boundaries between sanity and madness, crime and justice, nature and man. A dazzling novel from the most powerful voice of contemporary Polish literature, Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk.

“A magnificent writer.”

Svetlana Alexievich

“This book is not just a 'who is the murderer' novel: It is a philosophical tale about life and death, full of secrets. Secrets that you will feel in your bones if you put your ear close to the ground.”

New York Times Book Review

“A dazzling, imaginative, genre-defying story. Part mystery, part fable, Plow Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a thrilling philosophical inquiry into the ways some creatures are superior to others.”

TIME

“One of the most enjoyable novels of the year.”

The Guardian

“Olga Tokarczuk is one of the few European novelists of the last quarter century. This novel is an idyllic black comedy with wry humor and dark surprises.”

The Economist

“The indisputable masterpiece of 'controlled psychosis'... The clues that eventually come together with an extraordinary fiction create an impressive It turns into success.”

Publishers Weekly

“A rousing song for nature… an ode to William Blake… [and] a genre lament. Will Tokarczuk surpass Blake? Debatable – maybe.”

NPR

“Although it clearly adopts the structure of a crime novel, Plow Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead An original novel with its spooky humor and morbid philosophical interventions... And a perfect finale. Tokarczuk is undoubtedly a gifted, original writer.”

The Wall Street Journal

“Plow Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is violent, exciting and special, almost indescribable; “It is the most innovative existential novel I have read in a long time.”

The New Yorker

“Sometimes the opening sentence of a first-person narrative reflects the personality of the narrator so well that you spend all your time with him. you want to spend. That's the same for this novel... A thorny and devastating story about what it takes to challenge brutal power.”

Boston Globe

“Olga Tokarczuk focuses on ecological and political issues with her extraordinary talent, intelligence and 'deep novels', and supports the struggle He doesn't let go. The stakes are always high, Tokarczuk tells it again and again and does not leave the front line.”

HuffPost

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2. Dough

Number of Pages: 304

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Print Year: 2020

Number of Prints: 1. Edition

Language : Turkish

Original Name : Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych