Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Polish novelist, born 1962. Won the International Booker Prize in 2018.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a 2009 novel by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish. It was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019.
On 2 of the 12 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Olga Tokarczuk
- First published
- 2009
- Length
- 274 pages (UK paperback)
- Original language
- Translated from Polish
- Awards
- International Booker Prize shortlist, 2019
- Genre
- Crime and mystery, Philosophical, Feminist, Rural life
Is Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead worth reading?
2 of the 12 best-of lists it could have made include it: the International Booker Prize and The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| International Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 2019) | Shortlist | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian, 2019) | No. 75 | See the list |
Best edition of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The edition we link to is the Fitzcarraldo Editions paperback (2019), 274 pages, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
- Publisher
- Fitzcarraldo Editions (paperback, 2019)
- Pages
- 274
- Translator
- Antonia Lloyd-Jones
- ISBN
- 9781913097257
How critics, prizes and readers rate Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 33% of the points available on prize lists, against 17% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work