![]() ![]() “I particularly love it when they show maps of pressure, which explain a sudden resistance to getting out of bed or an ache in the knees, or something else again-an inexplicable sorrow that has just the same character as an atmospheric front.” Janina has other eccentric beliefs and habits. Holed up at home in bad weather, Janina watches the weather channel all day long. ![]() Repeated confrontations with hunters and complaints to the police about poachers have resulted in much of the village population writing her off as “an old woman, gone off her rocker living in this wilderness.” Few people know that Janina is actually a retired bridge engineer and teacher, who presently supports herself working as a caretaker for her neighbors’ summer cottages. An elderly woman living on her own, Janina has a prickly relationship with most of the villagers. But the story Janina relates is also a meditation on aging, a paean to like-minded friendship, and, most surprisingly, a deep investigation into how astrology works. In summer it scatters among the leaves and rustles-it’s never quiet here,” notes protagonist and narrator Janina Duszejko. ![]() “In winter the wind becomes violent and shrill, howling in the chimneys. It’s set in its present day in the outskirts of a remote Polish village near the border of the Czech Republic. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk’s excellent, odd, singular 2009 novel (translated from the Polish in 2018 by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) is, on its surface, a murder mystery. ![]()
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