WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . . 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. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . . 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. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?
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Constellation novels, philosophical murder mysteries, and mythic historical chronicles offer readers intricate explorations of geography, identity, and human memory, as seen in the internationally celebrated book Flights. Written by Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, these works have been translated into more than thirty languages, earning her both the Nike Award—Poland's highest literary honor—and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Born on January 29, 1962, in Sulechów, Poland, Tokarczuk grew up in Klenica, where her parents worked as teachers and her father managed a school library that fostered her early reading habits. She studied psychology at the University of Warsaw before debuting as a fiction writer in 1993 with the novel Podróż ludzi Księgi (The Journey of the Book-People), which received the Polish Publisher's Prize for best debut. Tokarczuk eventually settled in Wrocław and published eight novels alongside multiple short story collections, developing into one of Poland's most prominent literary authors.
Tokarczuk gained broad international prominence in 2018 when her novel Flights won the Man Booker International Prize, making her the first Polish writer to receive the award. That same year, the Swedish Academy selected her for the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature (awarded in 2019), honoring her narrative imagination that represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.
Tokarczuk's prose is known for its wry perspective and non-linear narrative structures that leap between centuries, mythologies, and shifting viewpoints. Drawing on Gnosticism, Kabbalah, folklore, tarot, and regional history, her books frequently examine environmental ethics, human migration, fluid identity, and the historic entwinement of Central and Eastern European cultures.
4 books in catalog
Constellation novels, philosophical murder mysteries, and mythic historical chronicles offer readers intricate explorations of geography, identity, and human memory, as seen in the internationally celebrated book Flights. Written by Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, these works have been translated into more than thirty languages, earning her both the Nike Award—Poland's highest literary honor—and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Born on January 29, 1962, in Sulechów, Poland, Tokarczuk grew up in Klenica, where her parents worked as teachers and her father managed a school library that fostered her early reading habits. She studied psychology at the University of Warsaw before debuting as a fiction writer in 1993 with the novel Podróż ludzi Księgi (The Journey of the Book-People), which received the Polish Publisher's Prize for best debut. Tokarczuk eventually settled in Wrocław and published eight novels alongside multiple short story collections, developing into one of Poland's most prominent literary authors.
Tokarczuk gained broad international prominence in 2018 when her novel Flights won the Man Booker International Prize, making her the first Polish writer to receive the award. That same year, the Swedish Academy selected her for the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature (awarded in 2019), honoring her narrative imagination that represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.
Tokarczuk's prose is known for its wry perspective and non-linear narrative structures that leap between centuries, mythologies, and shifting viewpoints. Drawing on Gnosticism, Kabbalah, folklore, tarot, and regional history, her books frequently examine environmental ethics, human migration, fluid identity, and the historic entwinement of Central and Eastern European cultures.
