Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This book was dark and disconcerting in the way that it destabilizes assumptions and reveals a fundamental violence lurking beneath our thin veneer of humanity. That the narrator turns out to be a hypocrite doesn’t undo the message so much as strengthen it. I loved the pace and tone of this story, and felt the menace right alongside Duszejko, our narrator. So many things to enjoy here, not the least of which is Duszejko’s use of astrology to make sense of events and to anticipate outcomes. I found these passages surprisingly persuasive.



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