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Bibliographic Information
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Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
First American edition.
- Author
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Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-
- Publisher:
- Riverhead Books,
- Pub date:
- 2019.
- Pages:
- 274 pages ;
- ISBN:
- 9780525541332
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Item info:
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1 copy available in
Adult fiction shelves.
1 copy total in all locations.
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Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
First American edition.
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-
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Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
First American edition.
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-
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Personal Author:
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Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-
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Drive your plow over the bones of the dead / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
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Edition:
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First American edition.
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Physical description:
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274 pages ; 22 cm
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General Note:
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Translated from the Polish into English.
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Contents:
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Now pay attention -- Testosterone autism -- Perpetual light -- 999 deaths -- A light in the rain -- Trivia and banalities -- A speech to a poodle -- Uranus in Leo -- The largest in the smallest -- Cucujus haematodes -- The singing of the bats -- The vengeful beast -- The night archer -- The fall -- Saint Hubert -- The photograph -- The damsel.
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Summary:
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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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Subject term:
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Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
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Subject term:
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Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
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Geographic term:
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Poland--Fiction.
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Added Entry-Personal Name:
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Lloyd-Jones, Antonia,