Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Polish: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych) is a 2009 mystery novel by Olga Tokarczuk.

[9] Janina Duszejko is an ageing woman who lives in a rural Polish village, located near the Czech border in the Silesia region, in between Lewin and Kłodzko.

Janina spends most of her time studying astrology and translating the poetry of William Blake into Polish with her friend Dizzy.

Janina also finds a shocking photograph in Big Foot's house, the contents of which are revealed in the penultimate chapter.

Weeks later, the President, leader of a local social club and also a hunter, is found dead, covered in beetles.

In one of his sermons, Father Rustle praises hunters, calling them "ambassadors and partners of the Lord God in the work of creation."

Big Foot, she explains, really did choke on a deer bone, but this event, and her discovery of the photograph, inspired her to kill the next four men.

Janina flees on foot to the Czech Republic and is then taken by Boros to live in hiding, on the edge of the Białowieża Forest, where she can again be close to nature.

[13] In a 2018 interview with The Guardian, Tokarczuk cited Leonora Carrington's 1974 novel The Hearing Trumpet, which also features an unreliable narrator, as an influence on Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.

"[18] Kirkus Reviews praised the novel, writing, "Tokarczuk's novel is a riot of quirkiness and eccentricity, and the mood of the book, which shifts from droll humor to melancholy to gentle vulnerability, is unclassifiable—and just right.

"[19] Publishers Weekly called the novel "astounding" and wrote that it "succeeds as both a suspenseful murder mystery and a powerful and profound meditation on human existence and how a life fits into the world around it.

"[20] Writing for The Guardian, author Sarah Perry favourably reviewed the novel, saying, "It is an astonishing amalgam of thriller, comedy and political treatise, written by a woman who combines an extraordinary intellect with an anarchic sensibility.

[25] Polish actress Beata Poźniak narrated the English translation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead for Penguin Random House released on 13 August 2019.