Per Wikipedia, Polish author Olga Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature two months after the US release of
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Now
Drive is on sale at Kindle and Kobo US for $1.99. This looks like a very different and intriguing sort of mystery/thriller novel. Oh yeah, and in her spare time, Tokarczuk also won a Man Booker prize, for a different book.
Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KNV4RC3/
Kindle US/Smile:
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07KNV4RC3/
Kobo US:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dri...-of-the-dead-2
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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 Proulx
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. 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?
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