![]() ![]() Psychology and sociology would have plenty of potential lines of inquiry to suggest, but I don’t find the subject in the least bit interesting.” There’d be lots of Hypotheses to put forward if we wanted to amuse ourselves by looking into it. ![]() But there are some for whom these conditions are ideal. ![]() To reach the asphalt you must drive four kilometers on a dirt road full of potholes. . . “The road is poor, the frost and snow destroy whatever the local council tries to repair with its limited expenditure. One of the delights of the book is how vividly Janina is steeped in her isolated surroundings. There, she ekes out a living looking after well-to-do folks’ summer homes for them during the winter. Janina is a semi-retired schoolteacher living in the backwoods of southwest Poland, close to the Czech border. In Antonia Lloyd-Jones’s beguiling translation, Janina’s passions and pet peeves come through loud and clear. “Drive Your Plow” is more straightforward in its format, but couldn’t be more offbeat in tone. Tokarczuk won the Man Booker International Prize in 2018 for her novel “Flights,” a time-hopping, collage-like meditation on how travelers navigate space and time. ![]()
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