Description

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.

Publisher Review

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 Both delightfully dreamlike and cuttingly sharp * Economist *