Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (translated from Polish) is by Olga Tokarczuk, who won the Man Booker Award for Flights. The book jacket calls this novel a “thriller cum fairy tale” but I would call it a political allegory. Not sure why critics aren’t embracing this as a critique of the existing speciesism order humans have imposed on the world. It reminded me of Voltaire’s Candide, had it been written by PETA. Here’s what Kirkus Reviews says:
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