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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

by Olga Tokarczuk

International Dublin Literary Award · 2020 · Shortlist
Riverhead Booksliterary-fictionmystery-crimescience-naturetranslatedISBN 9780525541349

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International Dublin Literary Award2020Shortlist

About This Book

Olga Tokarczuk's dark comedy, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, follows a retired civil engineer in the mountains of Poland who becomes involved in a series of mysterious deaths of local hunters. Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.

About the Author

Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual born on January 29, 1962, in Sulechów, western Poland. Trained as a clinical psychologist at the University of Warsaw, she worked briefly as a psychotherapist before dedicating herself to literature. Influenced by Carl Jung, her writing features mythical tones, explorations of boundaries, and psychological depth. Read more →

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