Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel by Olga Tokarczuk Edition:Hardcover Udel draws out the contours

Udel draws out the contours of the new Jewish picaresque by contrasting it against the nineteenth-century genre of progress epitomized by the Bildungsroman

many Jewish (and now universal) favorites like matzo balls

class mobility

as fascism spread its terrifying tentacles across Europe

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel by Olga Tokarczuk Edition:Hardcover Udel draws out the contoursWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature~ In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not so secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly