![]() ![]() The loneliness experienced by a group of misfits. The cruelty of the elements, of seclusion. Janina is someone I will not soon forget.Īt the same time, this book is dark and tinged throughout with death. The way she capitalizes certain words, assigns her own names to people, ponders the proverbs of William Blake (where the fabulous title of this novel originates). I enjoyed being in the head of this marvellously unreliable narrator, smirked at her many amusing observations, her interactions with the people in her life and the natural world. ![]() Is it because Saturn is in the 8th house? Or because the animals have had enough, at long last? A middle aged woman in rural Poland, a woman who is best described as eccentric (obsessed with astrology, plagued by "ailments" both physical and psychological), finds herself in the middle of something of a murder mystery. These questions are asked in a most unique way. Asks the same questions that Dostoevsky asks in Crime and Punishment - who has the right to live? who has the right to kill? and what's the difference between a poacher and a hunter, anyway? (that last question is Tokarczuk's, not Dostoevsky's.) ![]()
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