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Yoko Tawada | Archipelago Of The Sun Crime Fiction unsettling meditation – at once978183513201 06 11 25 PB 224 pages Translated by Margaret Mitsutani 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,