The police and villagers then conclude that Janina must be the murderer. A few days later, the church burns down and Father Rustle is found dead. Father Rustle greatly admires the local hunters, and he even hunts with them sometimes.

It is led by Father Rustle, a local Catholic priest. One day, a new Catholic church opens in the village. Around this time, romance begins to grow between Janina and Boros. Janina refers to him simply as the President. A few weeks later, the president of a local social club is found dead he was also a known hunter. Eventually, Innerd is founded dead in the woods. Janina offers to let Boros lodge in her home, and Boros accepts the offer.

He is studying endangered beetles and trying to petition the Polish government to protect these endangered beetles. Around the same time, an entomologist named Borys (spelled ‘Boros’ by Janina) arrives in the village. People believe that he may have run off with his mistress. One day, the village’s wealthiest resident-a man named Innerd-suddenly goes missing. Janina responds that she values them equally. A police officer remarks that Janina seems to value animal life more than human life. The police call in Janina for questioning since she was one of the first people to see the Commandant’s body. Janina and Dizzy both love the work of English poet William Blake, and they enjoy translating his poems into Polish.

She spends time with her friends Dizzy and Oddball, who are deeply skeptical of her theory. The Commandant was also an avid hunter, and Janina continues to advocate for the theory that animals are taking revenge. It is unclear if he died from an accidental car crash or if he was murdered. Dizzy fetches Janina to survey the crime scene. One day, the police chief-whom Janina simply refers to as the Commandant-is found dead in his car by Janina’s friend Dizzy. Janina sends letters to the police stating the theory that animals may have killed Big Foot out of vengeance. The police begin to investigate the death but are unconvinced that it is a homicide. Janina is a devout believer in astrology, and she thinks that maybe she can use Big Foot’s horoscope to determine his cause of death. Janina loves animals, and Big Foot was an avid hunter. The deer was one that Big Foot hunted, killed, cooked, and ate. Janina is horrified but is also somewhat glad that Big Foot is dead. One day, Janina’s friend and neighbor-whom she calls Oddball-tells her that he has found their neighbor-whom Janina calls Big Foot-dead in his cabin. She used to have two pet dogs, but they went missing. Janina is a semi-elderly woman who lives alone in a cabin in the woods. The novel opens in modern-day Poland in an unnamed village near the Czech border. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Tokarczuk, Olga.

Over the bones of the dead