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Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead

By: Olga Tokarczuk
Narrated by: Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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With Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel.

In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her 60s, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken.

When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation. By no means a conventional crime story, this existential thriller by ‘one of Europe’s major humanist writers’ (Guardian) offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalized people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination - and caused a genuine political uproar in Tokarczuk’s native Poland.

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I understand the narration is an artistic choice, but in this case it makes the writing hard to take in. It’s great writing too, which makes it all the more frustrating the narrator sounds like a knock off Miss Marple. A shame.

Narration gets in the way.

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Brilliant representation of a fully formed woman with a caustic wit and a mission. I absolutely loved it.

Loved this spiky protagonist

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It’s a little slow to begin with but has an absolutely superb ending, making it thoroughly worth watching!

Amazing Ending

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I really enjoyed this book but unfortunately the reader is absolutely not for me. I felt as though she was reading to a three year old and the inflections in her voice reminded me of some truely terrible actor making a hash of a perfectly fine piece of work.

book is wonderful ready not so much

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The storyline was very quirky and original - quite unexpected murder mystery. I loved the characters, especially the narrator. I also loved the descriptions of the settings. The performance was great, just how I imagined the narrator to be.

Quirky and atmospheric

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