Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

2023-10-08

A weird, witchy woman spends her winters in an isolated village in Poland: her days are spent drawing up horoscopes, tending to the homes of the rich out-of-towners, and loudly protesting the police to stop hunters and poachers. But then her neighbour, a well-known poacher, turns up dead — and all signs point to the impossible: the Animals are taking revenge. Powerfully written, asks hard questions about how and why we should extend compassion and justice to those society sees as less-human — whether that is animals, the mentally ill, the poor — whomever.