Unfortunately, as the novel ending reveals, Janina’s desire to help others is mostly limited to helping animals and hurting. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work. Tokarczuk’s novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A brilliant literary murder mystery. On a symbolic level, the juxtaposition of these social/antisocial modes mirrors Janina’s fluctuations between self-isolation and desire to help others. About Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. However, Janina occasionally spends time with her neighbors or visits more densely populated areas. 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.
Janina’s narration establishes the conditions of isolation as both geographical and meteorological: “Our hamlet consists of a few houses…far from the rest of the world…In winter the wind becomes violent and shrill” (32). In the novel’s setting of a rural Polish village, Janina lives a fairly isolated and reclusive life in a cabin in the woods. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel Hardcover Augby Olga Tokarczuk (Author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator) 9,728 ratings Editors' pick Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. The practical realities of life in the village form a tension between isolation and community that distinctly parallel the tensions between loyalty to oneself and loyalty to other people.
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