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 they dock in coastal ports along the route, an array of mysterious characters board their vessel.
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781803513201
Dimensions: 216 x 135 mm
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
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