WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." -Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." -Annie ProulxIn 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 . . .A 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. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?

IT KEEPS COMING: With Flights, Olga had a red-carpet reception in the US: a NYT profile, a stunning array of reviews, finalist for the inaugural National Book Award in Translation, and packed audiences and media schedule on a whirlwind coast-to-coast tour. Drive Your Plow is coming out of the gate strong, with a New Yorker profile and major coverage out and coming from NYTBR, NPR, and many more.INTERNATIONAL LITERARY STAR: Already rumored as a Nobel contender and published in more than a dozen languages, Tokarczuk ratcheted several notches more famous when she won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for Flights.GREAT ONE-TWO PUNCH: Following on the intellectually dazzling Flights, Drive Your Plow - Olga's inspired reimagining of the contemporary crime novel-is just as ingeniously original but vastly more plot-driven and accessible. Readers will want to inhale it an afternoon.BUT STILL CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED: Drive Your Plow was nominated for Poland's most prestigious literary award, the Nike, in 2010; just published in the UK, it's being greeted rapturously ("An astonishing amalgam of thriller, comedy and political treatise"-the Guardian; "Prescient, provocative, and furiously comic"-The New Statesman).PROVOCATIVE THEMES: With her trademark mordant wit, Tokarczuk here explores themes ranging from our perceptions of madness and the marginalized to animal rights, the hypocrisies of traditional religion, and predestination.