Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk · b. 1962 · Poland

Originally Prowadź Swój Pług przez Kości Umarłych (Polish) · translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Why it matters

An eccentric older woman in a remote Polish village suspects the local hunters are being killed by the animals they stalk. A murder mystery that becomes a furious eco-parable and a hymn to William Blake.

At a glance

A clear first-person mystery narrative, its digressions into Blake and astrology aside.