Lead your chariot and plough over the bones of the dead
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Lead your chariot and plough over the bones of the dead
A moral thriller from the Czech-Polish border, where animals know more than humans.
Olga Tokarczuk's novel could be described as a "moral thriller". The protagonist of the story is Jana Dušejková, a civil engineer who has to earn her living as an English and geography teacher at a school in the Kladsko basin on the Czech-Polish border. In winter she also works as a caretaker of the summer apartments. Her passion is astrology and above all she loves animals. He tries to help and protect them in every possible way, and fights against people who hurt them. He warns against indiscriminate destruction of nature, he sees human destinies inscribed in the stars. He belongs to the circle of enthusiastic readers of the English poet William Blake (the title of the book is a quote from his poem).
One day, Jan's neighbour is found dead. Another murder follows, and then another... Poachers and prominent members of society die mysteriously. Only the animals are mute witnesses. The heroine knows something about these murders, but the police don't listen to her - but Jana Dušejková can read the stars...
Olga Tokarczuk
(born. 1962) is one of the best known and most appreciated contemporary Polish writers. She is the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her books have been translated into more than fifty languages. She achieved international success with her third book, Prehistory and Other Times (1996, Czech: 1999, 2007, 2024). The novel Drive Your Wagon and Plough Over the Bones of the Dead (2009, Czech 2010, 2017) was made into a film by director Agnieszka Holland. For her novels The Runners (2007, Czech 2008) and The Books of Jakub (2014, Czech 2016) Tokarczuk won the most prestigious Polish literary prize Nike and for The Runners she also won the International Man Booker Prize.
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