Read and discuss this subversive thriller by winner of The Nobel Prize in Literature, Olga Tokarczuk
Highlights
- Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
- 6 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
- Read and discuss this book and discuss themes of humanity, madness and animal rights
- Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes
Practise and develop your English online in this advanced 6 week course featuring Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
The Book Club book
This novel is a subversive, entertaining noir thriller, with a highly memorable central character, Janina Duszejko. She is an eccentric polish woman in her sixties, who tells the story of what happened when her two dogs disappeared. She is a recluse who prefers the company of animals to that of people. She’s unconventional, and she is fond of the poetry of English poet and artist William Blake, which is where book's title comes from. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation. This is not a typical crime story, as it encourages us to think about madness, injustice, animal rights, traditional religion and fate.
Geoff says:
"Olga Tokarczuk is considered to be one of Europe’s major humanist writers, and so this novel is much more than a simple crime story. She is a Nobel prize winner in Literature and also winner of the International Man Booker Prize."
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*Times are 1 hour earlier after 30/03, due to UK daylight saving |
| Age | 18+ |
| Class size | Maximum 8 participants |
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