olga tokarczuk – Mike Wilson https://mikewilsonwriter.com Writing in the post-truth world Thu, 20 Aug 2020 00:34:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 177517995 Book Review – Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2020/08/21/book-review-drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead-by-olga-tokarczuk/ https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2020/08/21/book-review-drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead-by-olga-tokarczuk/#respond Fri, 21 Aug 2020 22:26:00 +0000 https://mikewilsonwriter.com/?p=778

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:

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/olga-tokarczuk/drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead/

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