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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk,

Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)

Start date: July 15, 2022

Finish date: August 15, 2022

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Jan 25, 2020 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read2020, around-the-world, location-poland, book-cougars-readalong

When I saw this was the next book for the BookCougars readalong, I knew it was the push I needed. It is quite a bit different from Flights by the same author, which was fragmentary and not so linear. Drive Your Plow is about an older woman in Poland who helps a neighbor with another neighbor who has died, and gets swept up in what might be a crime spree or might be the animals taking revenge. I also love how some things happen in a sentence, blink and you could miss them, like the time she goes ...more

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Mar 18, 2022 Ann D rated it really liked it

Tokarczuk won the Nobel Prize for literature. This is the first of her books I have read. It is a highly original book.

The plot centers around Janina, an older Polish woman who lives in a Polish village near the Czech border. She loves animals and has frequent disputes with the authorities about the mistreatment of animals. They consistently ignore her complaints. In the off season, Janina is the caretaker of the summer homes of city dwellers. Her next door neighbor is found dead, and the myste ...more

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Dec 31, 2019 Kate rated it really liked it · review of another edition

3.5 stars. An odd little book.

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Dec 19, 2020 Joyce rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, read-around-the-world, mysteries, book-club-choice

I found this delightful. A very unreliable narrator tells a story about a series of mysterious deaths in her community. No one listens to her when she says that the animals are taking vengeance and also she is old and of no consequence. I think it has a few things to say about the invisibility of older women.

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