Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead provides an extraordinary display of the qualities that have made Tokarczuk so notable a presence in contemporary literature.The novel is difficult to categorize. It is, in effect, a murder mystery: in the bleak Polish midwinter, men in an isolated village are being murdered, and it is left to Janina Duszejko, a kind of eastern European Miss Marple, to identify the murderer.A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, the book is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. The book is an astonishing amalgam of dark feminist comedy and paean to William Blake from the Polish winner of the 2018 International Man Booker Prize.