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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