Between The Lines Book Club: Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by Olag Tokarczuk

Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvellous adventures that anyone can have: Lloyd Alexander.

If you agree, alight at Station South, Levenshulme for Between the Lines, the Station South book club!

This is an informal get together for those who love to read, those who want to read more, those who want to rediscover a love of reading, find new books, share thoughts and opinions, listen to others, feel inspired to pick up a book instead of turning to a screen all over a glass of whatever takes your fancy.

We invite you to Between The Lines Book Club where we will be discussing Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by Olag Tokarczuk

In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her 60s, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. 

When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation. By no means a conventional crime story, this existential thriller by ‘one of Europe’s major humanist writers’ (Guardian) offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalized people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination – and caused a genuine political uproar in Tokarczuk’s native Poland.