WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A brilliant literary murder mystery. Novels this thrilling don’t come along very often. About Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Tokarczuk’s novel 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. In this country, the novel was named to multiple Best Book of the Year lists, including Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Time, and NPR. As the body count rises, readers are treated to Janina’s beliefs (“Finally, transformed into tiny quivering photons, each of our deeds will set off into Outer Space, where the planets will keep watching it like a film until the end of the world”), descriptions (a body is “a troublesome piece of luggage”), and observations (flowers in a garden “are neat and tidy, standing straight and slender, as if they’d been to the gym”). Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Deadwas published in Poland in 2009 but didn’t become available in English translation until a decade later. This Study Guide consists of approximately 32 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Soon another body turns up, and Janina, an avid creator of horoscopes and, more generally, prone to theorizing and ascribing incidents to larger systems, develops a theory that animals are killing the locals. She is based on the main character in Polish author and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuks novel of the same name, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Before the police arrive, Janina and Oddball find a deer bone in Big Foot’s mouth. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Polish: Prowad swój pug przez koci umarych) is a 2009 mystery novel by Olga Tokarczuk. Narrator Janina Duszejko, an English teacher and winter caretaker for a few summer houses in an isolated Polish hamlet near the Czech border, is awakened one night by her neighbor, whom she calls Oddball, who informs her that their neighbor, nicknamed Big Foot, is dead in his house.

Tokarczuk follows her Man Booker International winner Flights with an astounding mystical detective novel.

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