Everlasting Dusk

“It is at dusk the most interesting things occur, for that is when simple differences fade away,” the narrator in Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead says. “I could live in everlasting dusk.”

It’s early in the novel, a death has occurred, the narrator—and therefore the reader—isn’t sure how to feel about it. The dead man, one of t…