![]() ![]() To order this book from Hive online bookshop, click here. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation.īy no means a conventional crime story, this existential thriller by ‘one of Europe’s major humanist writers’ (Guardian) offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalized people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination – and caused a genuine political uproar in Tokarczuk’s native Poland. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people she’s unconventional, believing in the stars and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. ![]() Use tilling when you need to improve the quality of your soil and help your plants germinate and grow efficiently. ![]() In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. Tilling rakes over the soil to even out the area. With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. One of the most original, exciting and surprising books I’ve read for years.’ ~ Nick Hunt, contributor to May 2022’s Rebel Library. ‘An ecological detective story set in a small Polish village, this strange, twisted, darkly brilliant novel –revolving around a nature-loving old woman obsessed with the poems of William Blake – infuriated the right-wing hunting lobby in Poland, which is as good a reason as any to buy a copy. ![]()
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