{"product_id":"drive-your-plow-over-pb","title":"Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a best book of 2019 by \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNPR, Kirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e BookRiot\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePEN America Translation Prize longlist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWarwick Prize for Women in Translation shortlist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e paean to nature. . . a sort of ode to Blake. . . [and] a lament. . . Does Tokarczuk transcend Blake? Arguable --perhaps.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e-- NPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, \u003ci\u003eDrive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead \u003c\/i\u003eis a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlga Tokarczuk \u003c\/b\u003ehas won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Book International Prize, among many other honors. She is the author of a dozen works of fiction, two collections of essays, and a children's book; her work has been translated into fifty languages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Olga Tokarczuk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711085465885,"sku":"9780525541349","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780525541349.jpg?v=1713984455","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/drive-your-plow-over-pb","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}