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Plow over5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Tokarczuk is a prophet for our times who understands us in all our hilarity, messiness, cruelty and animalism, and it is a great privilege to bring to the stage what is surely one of literature’s most urgent accounts of being alive today. 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. “Olga Tokarczuk has created an extraordinary world that speaks to my deepest sense of the continuity between humankind and nature – a world where, like a mycelium web, all entities are connected deeply at the roots, unable to exist alone. What does it mean to be human and what does it mean to be animal, and can we separate the two? Why is the killing of animals sport and that of humans murder? A rallying cry for nature, it explosively exposes the hypocrisy of institutional power. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead 2009/18 1/2 This book by Olga Tokarczuk (the winner of the International Booker Prize Award for Flights) was translated from the Polish in 2018 by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. ![]() ![]() Olga Tokarczuk’s “marvelously weird and fablelike mystery” ( The New York Times) is a whodunnit unlike any other. She has been watching the animals with whom the community shares their isolated, rural home, and she believes they are acting strangely… Janina Duszejko – ex-engineer, environmentalist, devoted astrologer and enthusiastic translator of William Blake – has her suspicions. In a small community on a remote mountainside near the Czech-Polish border, men from the local hunting club are dying in mysterious circumstances. ![]()
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