About this Event
For February, our Translated Fiction Book Club will be plowing through Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Nobel-winner Olga Tokarczuk. An ecological, unconventional Polish thriller translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, this promises to be an intense and thought-provoking. Come along at 5.45 on Friday 27th with yourself and your thoughts, and we’ll be ready with tea and biscuits. We'll be in the secondhand section, in the basement.
As opposed to original plans, this will now be taking place on Friday 27th February - apologies for any inconvenience. From this month on regular last Wednesday of the month scheduling will be instated.
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.
By no means a conventional crime story, this existential thriller by 'one of Europe's major humanist writers' 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.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Heffers Bookshop, 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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