2021/108: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead -- Olga Togarcsuk (translated by Antonia

2021/108: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead -- Olga Togarcsuk (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

When you kill [animals], and they die in Fear and Terror – like that Boar whose body lay before me yesterday, and is still lying there, defiled, muddied and smeared with blood, reduced to carrion – you doom them to hell, and the whole world changes into hell. [p. 106]

Midwinter in a small Polish village, near the Czech border. Janina Duszejko is woken in the middle of the night by the neighbour she calls Oddball: together, they discover the corpse of another neighbour (Big Foot) who has been murdered.( Read more... )