Presented by Matt at the October 2025 meeting
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- Published 2009
- Fiction
- 294 pages
- Matt3
In brief
Odd rural Polish woman investigates animal-linked murders, blurs lines between justice, nature, and revenge.
From Wikipedia
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Polish: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych) is a 2009 mystery novel by Olga Tokarczuk. Originally published in Polish by Wydawnictwo Literackie, it was later translated to English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and published in 2018 by the British independent publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions. The book received a wider release in 2019 when it was published in the United States by Riverhead Books on 13 August 2019. A portion of the English translation was originally published in literary magazine Granta in 2017.
The novel was shortlisted for the 2019 International Booker Prize. Antonia Lloyd-Jones's translation was also longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature two months after the novel's US release. In 2020, it was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.