![]() ![]() ![]() She is an older woman, widowed, with only a few friends. Janina, it turns out, is a bit of a crank. But she can’t get anyone to pay attention, and her friend suggests that she stop talking about her theories. She writes letters to the police, giving her reasons and her astrological theories. Janina has a theory: the animals are taking revenge on people who have been cruel to them. Later, there’s another killing, and then another. They visit the scene together, and Janina believes that it is a murder. When she finally manages to rouse herself, a friend announces to her that one of their neighbors has just died. It is a gritty, modern, realistic murder mystery.Īs the novel opens, Janina (the protagonist) is awakened in the middle of the night by persistent banging on her door. Well, it does have an animal theme, but if you were expecting lyrical descriptions of the Polish countryside from this author, you can forget that right now. So when I heard that Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (which turns out to be an allusion to a William Blake poem) had a strong “animal” theme, I was naturally curious and had to check it out. She is also a vegetarian and recently received the Nobel Prize. The Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk has become something of a lightning rod in her home country because of her left-wing and anti-establishment views. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. ![]()
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