Archipelago of the Sun
Yoko Tawada author Margaret Mitsutani translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Granta Books
Publishing:6th Nov '25
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 6th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
The final volume of the electric Scattered All Over the Earth trilogy, from the prize-winning Japanese author.
In this concluding volume, intrepid Hiruko and her band of friends embark on a sea voyage in search of Hiruko's lost island homeland - the Land of Sushi. The boat carrying the companions strikes east from Copenhagen across the Baltic Sea, but as it docks in coastal ports along the route, an array of mysterious characters boards the vessel. Deeply inventive, poignant and sublime, Archipelago of the Sun is yet another masterful novel by the grande dame of Japanese literature.
Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things -- Sara Baume
Every Yoko Tawada novel pulls the ground out from under us, but gives us new senses in return -- Madeleine Thien
Tawada disrupts our perception and reveals the terror and beauty of our world as we get lost in it, and regain our footing through reading her novels -- Kit Fan
Tawada's prose is light on its feet, informal while still feeling deliberate, providing delicate and straightforward descriptions of events that are often complicated and bizarre * New York Times *
Tawada is, far and away, one of my favourite writers working today - thrilling, discomforting, uncannily beautiful, like no one you have ever read before -- Laura van den Berg
ISBN: 9781803513201
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
224 pages