Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk
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Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk ([tɔˈkarttʂuk]; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer and activist considered one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. In 2019 she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life." For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk has been awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. Her works include Primeval and Other Times, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and The Books of Jacob. Tokarczuk is particularly noted for the mythical tone of her writing. A clinical psychologist from the University of Warsaw, she has published a collection of poems, several novels, as well as other books with shorter prose works. Her works have been translated into almost 40 languages, making her one of the most translated contemporary Polish writers.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a 2009 mystery novel by Olga Tokarczuk. Originally published in Polish by Wydawnictwo Literackie, it was later translated to English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and published in 2018 by the British independent publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions. The novel was shortlisted for the 2019 International Booker 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, autonomy and fate.
Reviews “It is an astonishing amalgam of thriller, comedy and political treatise, written by a woman who combines an extraordinary intellect with an anarchic sensibility. ” (The Guardian, September 21, 201 ) “succeeds as both a suspenseful murder mystery and a powerful and profound meditation on human existence and how a life fits into the world around it. ” (Publishers Weekly, May 14, 2019) “Tokarczuk's novel is a riot of quirkiness and eccentricity, and the mood of the book, which shifts from droll humor to melancholy to gentle vulnerability, is unclassifiable—and just right. Tokarczuk's mercurial prose seems capable of just about anything. ” ( Kirkus Reviews, May 27, 201)
Selected works •
House of Day, House of Night, 2003
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Primeval & Other Times, 2010
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Flights, 2018
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, 2019
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The Lost Soul, 2021
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The Books of Jacob, 2021
The given years are those of the English publication, not the original in Polish
Interesting Links Olga Tokarczuk on Nobel Prize Web: https:// www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2018/tokarczuk/biograp hical/ “The Guardian View on Nobel Winner Olga Tokarczuk. Light Amid the Dark”: https:// www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/13/the- guardianview-on-nobel-winner-olga-tokarczuk-light-amid-the-dark Podcast El Refugio de Papel (ESP): https://elrefugiodepapel.com https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-refugio-papel_sq_f1878858_1.html Our coordinator´s blog https://donostiabookclub.blogspot.com