Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead

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Publicado el 17 de diciembre de 2019 por Rverhead Books.

ISBN:
978-0-525-54133-2
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Número OCLC:
1051777301

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With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation. By no means a conventional crime story, this existential thriller by ‘one of Europe’s major humanist writers’ (Guardian) offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalized people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination – and caused a genuine political uproar in Tokarczuk’s native Poland.

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Engraçado e subversivo

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Sobre os Ossos dos Mortos (2019, 256 pgs), da polonesa Olga Tokarczuk, é um romance intimista cativante que mergulha na vida de uma anti-heroína subversiva incomum: Janina, uma idosa amante da natureza vivendo em relativo isolamento em uma área remota.

Ela sempre bate de frente com o senso comum das outras pessoas, se opondo apaixonadamente à matança de animais selvagens. Caçadores começam a aparecer mortos e ela tem certeza de que o mundo natural está se vingando dos homens.

Entre as pessoas da vila e vizinhos, ela é vista como a “velha louca”. Um dos feitos da obra é inverter o objeto de estranheza e retratar o mundo comum, com seus bizarros e bárbaros costumes, com os olhos dela. Aos poucos, todas suas excentricidades vão se tornando aconchegantes até.

Não falta humor. O contraste de suas atitudes e pensamentos com os das outras …

Review of 'Sobre os Ossos dos Mortos' on 'Goodreads'

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Tokarczuk novel starts off with a loud knock on the door, a visitor, and in a hurried shuffle the discovery of a neighbours body in his home: a local hermit, poacher, and dog abuser whom our protagonist has a distinct dislike of. From there a interesting murder mystery unfolds exploring the relationships between a small community bordering the Czech Republic in Poland and the human and animal relations.

Our protagonist from the begin presents as an unreliable narrator, an elderly vegetarian woman with poor social skills, a strange naming convention for people in her life, an almost fanatical devotion to Astrology, and a passion for William Blakes Poetry which the novel derives its title from. I found myself both sympathetic to her and at odds with her stories, as we see the world through her …