Is it because Saturn is in the 8th house? Or because the animals have had enough, at long last? A middle aged woman in rural Poland, a woman who is best described as eccentric (obsessed with astrology, plagued by "ailments" both physical and psychological), finds herself in the middle of something of a murder mystery. These questions are asked in a most unique way. Asks the same questions that Dostoevsky asks in Crime and Punishment - who has the right to live? who has the right to kill? and what's the difference between a poacher and a hunter, anyway? (that last question is Tokarczuk's, not Dostoevsky's.) A middle aged woman in rural Poland, a woman who is best described as eccentric (obsessed with astrology, plagued by "ailments" both physical and psychological), fi Oh, YES. Asks the same questions that Dostoevsky asks in Crime and Punishment - who has the right to live? who has the right to kill? and what's the difference between a poacher and a hunter, anyway? (that last question is Tokarczuk's, not Dostoevsky's.) These questions are asked in a most unique way. Ī 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, autonomy and fate. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Soon other bodi 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. 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.
0 kommentar(er)
