Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (Nobel, 2018)

We are revisiting this Polish author after Flights (read in 2021) was so enjoyed. While Flights was snippets of modern travel, this book sounds very different. Set in a small Polish village, the narrator, Janina, is a retired school teacher helping a friend translate the poetry of William Blake to Polish. She is witness to several murders and develops a theory around animals being the killers. The title comes from a Blake's poem Proverbs of Hell. The Guardian calls it "unclassifiable" as a murder mystery/existentialist fable/feminist comedy/vegetarian politics primer and named it 75th best book of this century on their top 100 list. It was adapted to a film, Spoor, with mixed reviews, released in 2017.

Since starting this book club a few years ago we have formed a nice core membership. If you haven't come yet, please look out for the books on the table, pull up a chair, order a wine and join us. We like to hear what everyone has to say and enjoy the conversation, we're not cliquey at all! Oh, and to defray the Meetup monthly bill I will accept gold coin contributions or wine if you want to pay for multiple in one hit. I hope to see everyone again at this one with some new faces.