Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
8 hrs. 37 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Olga Tokarczuk
Author
Olga Tokarczuk
Narrator
Yulia Stepanova
Narrator
Yulia Stepanova
Description
From the laureate of the Nobel Prize and the International Booker.
“Perhaps we do not demand an end to evil strongly enough? We can tolerate small things that cause discomfort at most, but not senseless, widespread cruelty. After all, it’s so simple: the happiness of other people and of us makes us happier.”
A remarkable layered quality is the calling card of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, whose texts are never simple. Detective fiction, philosophy, allusions, and a piercing depth of forest landscapes. “Drive your plow over the bones of the dead” is the story of a heroine with a special perspective on the familiar—whose inner world we unravel as if from her natal maps. In many ways, it is a novel-investigation. In her text, Tokarczuk artfully walks along points of opposite polarity: life and death, accidental existence and predestination, human and nature, hunter and victim. Who has the right to live, and who— to kill? And who is given the power to decide that? In 2017, a criminal drama based on the book, “The Trace of the Beast,” was made by Agnieszka Holland. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, where the film received the “Silver Bear” award.
“Perhaps we do not demand an end to evil strongly enough? We can tolerate small things that cause discomfort at most, but not senseless, widespread cruelty. After all, it’s so simple: the happiness of other people and of us makes us happier.”
A remarkable layered quality is the calling card of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, whose texts are never simple. Detective fiction, philosophy, allusions, and a piercing depth of forest landscapes. “Drive your plow over the bones of the dead” is the story of a heroine with a special perspective on the familiar—whose inner world we unravel as if from her natal maps. In many ways, it is a novel-investigation. In her text, Tokarczuk artfully walks along points of opposite polarity: life and death, accidental existence and predestination, human and nature, hunter and victim. Who has the right to live, and who— to kill? And who is given the power to decide that? In 2017, a criminal drama based on the book, “The Trace of the Beast,” was made by Agnieszka Holland. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, where the film received the “Silver Bear” award.
