Format:
26 Seiten
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20 cm
ISBN:
9781913097257
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9781910695715
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1910695718
Uniform Title:
Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych
Content:
Now pay attention -- Testosterone autism -- Perpetual light -- 999 deaths -- A light in the rain -- Trivia and banalities -- A speech to a poodle -- Uranus in Leo -- The largest in the smallest -- Cucujus haematodes -- The singing of bats -- The vengeful beast -- The night archer -- The fall -- Saint Hubert -- The photograph -- The damsel.
Content:
"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 sixties, 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"--Back cover
Note:
Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize 2019
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Originally published in Polish as "Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych" by Wydawnictwo Literackie
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In English, translated from the Polish
Language:
English
Subjects:
Slavic Studies
Author information:
Tokarczuk, Olga 1962-
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