My Book Club in Mumbai is reading Drive Your Plough..... I've finished reading it...I found reading it a strange experience. 1. Poland is absolute virgin territory. I was astounded at the descriptions of 'poor looking homes' which later turned out to have all amenities. this because I kept comparing with poor homes in India. no comparison. 2. I kept seeing Janina refer to herself as 'old biddy', etc and was somewhat upset, because I am 60 plus. unearthed that there are times when I am an old woman. it hurts though. 3. We have an ancient, 5000 yr old tradition of astrology and astronomy. Kept trying to understand your stuff while pretending to disagree with it. Finally the strong Venus and lazy Venus convinced me of its veracity if not parallel. I too am often a lazy Venus. and a writer now. 4. your integrity was never at doubt even if your sanity was. strange how we forgive you for murder. 5. I wonder how the largely meat eating population took your condemnation. I am a vegetarian so had no problem. I shudder at sight and smell of meat. 6. pg 123. harmony was a good point., pg 128 was brilliant on 'spring', 130, cat & hat made me laugh. in fact lots of surprising subtle humour through the book. lots more I liked. 7. pg 229 was an interesting q about god. pg 239 was very acute about 'anger', pg 243 had a brilliant understanding of 'power', pg 244, brilliant line on trees, pg 244. me too on mercury retrograde. Finally the denouement where we don't blame he for the murders. Makes you think that all morality is such a relative thing. So contextual. So unabsolute. Simply written but with depth and originality and life. Thank you
I'm Polish, teaching geograhy and science in secondary school in the UK. Last week we had an assembly and we spoke about reading. teachers were raising hands to share what they read with the kids and I raised a hand too. I said I don't have much time to read paper books anymore but I drive 2 hrs a day so I listen to audiobooks. Recently it is 'Dom dzienny, dom nocny'' and I told them about O.Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize for Polish writer and how much it means to me to stay in touch with my mother's tongue thanks to her. How priceless it is when I listen to her words and find my own thoughts in it... I read Bieguni, Plug, Ksiegi J, Anne....O.Tokarczuk is equally important as Marquez and Umberto Eco in my mind.
Her English is very good though. I think people expect perfection when it isn't necessary. Her vocabulary is very big and even though she makes grammatical mistakes, it still doesn't affect comprehension.
@@lestry7878 it's about fluency, i.e. the natural flow of thought, that the people mean. Not grammar or vocab, or whatever you feel you should defend for her.
Her book Primeval and other times is the most exciting and imaginative Book I ever read. Beautiful and mooving. Poetic and in the same time cruelly realistic. Fairytaly and touching saga aboute world, wars, human Nature.
