RaveThe Sydney Morning HeraldOlga Tokarczuk is a masterful storyteller who challenges expectations of what a story can be ... a thrilling and immersive story ... Tokarczuk\'s book is, in a large way, about the embodiment of opposing states...hinting at how chaos can destroy that natural fabric, the ecosystem of the world ... Tokarczuk\'s gentle, light prose plays off against Duszejko\'s confronting eccentricity. Despite her rigidity, Tokarczuk presents Duszejko\'s sentimentality and reluctance to conform – to be accepted – as a strength ... Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead might read more like a Slavic fairytale than a thrilling tale of vengeance, but it can be both. It is a warped fable about ecocentrism, a feminist fantasy and a firm critique of those who abuse the power they are given.
Han Kang, Trans. by Deborah Smith
PositiveThe Sydney Morning HeraldKang\'s most experimental fictional work to date ... [Kang\'s] characteristically poetic writing, driven by the visual ornaments of the colour white, is most potent in short fragments. And the language avoids being ornate, a task made difficult without a linear plot driving the story ... It would be easy to rely on traditional associations of the colour white, but Kang\'s book neither toys with them nor attempts to redefine them ... a story of devotion, a most beautiful eulogy honouring the one that came before her.
