Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
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First American edition.
Finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, and autonomy and fate. In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind ...
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Record details
- ISBN: 9780525541332
- ISBN: 0525541330
- ISBN: 9780593086407
- ISBN: 0593086406
- Physical Description: 274 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2018
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Genre: | Psychological fiction. Suspense fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) Psychological fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. |