Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and the line between past

and the line between past and present begins to blur

and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world

along with a shocking revelation that changes Johannes's view of the world

a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in the city

Palacio has called her debut novel "a meditation on kindness" --indeed

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and the line between pastWarwick Prize for Women in Translation shortlist "A marvelously weird and fablelike mystery. . . . Authors with Tokarczuk's vending machine of phrasing . . . and gimlet eye for human behavior. . . are rarely also masters of pacing and suspense. But even as Tokarczuk sticks landing after landing . . . her asides are never desultory or a liability. They are more like little cuts quick, exacting and purposefully belated in their bleeding. . . . This book