Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
2009 crime novel by Olga Tokarczuk / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Polish: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych) is a 2009 mystery novel by Olga Tokarczuk. Originally published in Polish by Wydawnictwo Literackie, it was later translated to English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and published in 2018 by the British independent publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions. The book received a wider release in 2019 when it was published in the United States by Riverhead Books on 13 August 2019. A portion of the English translation was originally published in literary magazine Granta in 2017.[1]
Author | Olga Tokarczuk |
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Audio read by | Beata Poźniak |
Original title | Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych |
Translator | Antonia Lloyd-Jones |
Country | Poland |
Language | Polish |
Set in | Silesia |
Publisher | Wydawnictwo Literackie |
Publication date | 25 November 2009 |
Published in English | 12 September 2018 |
Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) and e-book |
Pages | 318 |
ISBN | 978-83-08-04398-1 |
891.8/537 | |
LC Class | PG7179.O37 P76 2009 |
The novel was shortlisted for the 2019 International Booker Prize.[2][3][4][5] Antonia Lloyd-Jones' translation was also longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature.[6][7] Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature two months after the novel's US release.[8] In 2020, it was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.[9]