book notes: 'drive your plow over the bones of the dead'

this 2009 novel (released in the u.s. in 2019) is one of my favorite books i've read this year. written by olga torkarczuk, winner of the 2018 nobel prize, 'drive your plow' is ostensibly a whodunit murder mystery set in a remote polish village. the protagonist is an astrologer who spends her time translating blake, which is about all i needed to know, personally, to dive in. and dive in, i did, thanks to poignance (often hilarious!) hidden within a sheath of mundanity, like the following quote passages suggest.