Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
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Adult Fiction - South Wing Basement
Tokarczuk
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274 pages ; 22 cm
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40029360842

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Translated from the Polish into English.
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Finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, and autonomy and fate. In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind ...

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Tokarczuk, O., & Lloyd-Jones, A. (2019). Drive your plow over the bones of the dead (First American edition.). Riverhead Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- and Antonia Lloyd-Jones. 2019. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Riverhead Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- and Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Riverhead Books, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Tokarczuk, Olga, and Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead First American edition., Riverhead Books, 2019.

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