Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a darkly comic, genre-blending novel that follows an eccentric older woman in rural Poland who investigates a series of mysterious deaths while critiquing patriarchy, cruelty to animals, and human hypocrisy.

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instanceOf Polish novel
crime novel
novel
adaptation Spoor
author Olga Tokarczuk
awardedToAuthor Nobel Prize in Literature 2018
centralTheme animal rights
critique of patriarchy
environmental ethics
human hypocrisy
justice and revenge
countryOfOrigin Poland
EnglishEditionPublicationYear 2018
EnglishEditionPublisher Fitzcarraldo Editions
EnglishTranslator Antonia Lloyd-Jones
filmAdaptationDirector Agnieszka Holland
filmAdaptationReleaseYear 2017
filmAdaptationTitle Spoor
genre crime fiction
dark comedy
eco-fiction
feminist fiction
literary fiction
mystery
psychological fiction
mainCharacter Janina Duszejko
narrationType first-person narration
notableFor blend of crime fiction and philosophical reflection
strong animal rights perspective
unconventional older female protagonist
originalLanguage Polish
originalTitle Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych
publicationYear 2009
publisher Wydawnictwo Literackie
setting rural Poland
settingPeriod late 20th century
titleOrigin line from William Blake’s poem "Proverbs of Hell"
translatedIntoLanguage Czech
Dutch
English
French
German
Italian
Norwegian
Russian
Spanish
Swedish

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