I had almost no expectations going into Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. I haven’t read anything by Olga Tokarczuk, have read very little (if any?) Polish literature, and basically picked it up only after seeing it all over Instagram.
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This was an interesting read - it was a mystery; it was a story about an aging woman dealing with illness and loneliness and friendship; it was a story about astrology and the influence that birth dates and star charts have on a person’s life; it was a story about treating animals kindly and the consequences for not doing so.
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Tokarczuk’s writing style and diction are superb. Like mind-blowingly beautiful. And I think that is what made this book work. That and the twist at the end that I never saw coming.
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I am pretty sure this is a book I will be thinking about for some time to come.