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Hiruko, from the now vanished archipelago somewhere between China and Polynesia, and her band of friends have searched in vain for someone who speaks her native language. They finally track down Susanoo, a sushi chef from the same nation, but there's a problem β€” he has... Read More
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Suggested in the Stars

The magical sequel to Scattered All Over the Earth, from the prize-winning Japanese author.

The magical sequel to Scattered All Over the Earth, from the prize-winning Japanese author.

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Hiruko, from the now vanished archipelago somewhere between China and Polynesia, and her band of friends have searched in vain for someone who speaks her native language. They finally track down Susanoo, a sushi chef from the same nation, but there's a problem β€” he has lost the power of speech.

As the companions set out to help Susanoo regain his voice, encountering magic radios, personality swaps, and climate change fears, their friendship empowers them against despair and sets them to dreaming of a better world. But if Hiruko is ever to hear her mother tongue again, a sceptical aphasia specialist in Copenhagen is her last hope.

Suggested in the Stars carries on the astonishing, intrepid adventures of the band of friends in Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada's rollicking, touching, cheerfully dystopian novel, and delivers exploits that are even more chaotic and poignant.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781803510996

Publisher: Granta Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 October 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Granta Books

Contributors:

  • Translated by Margaret Mitsutani

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 240

About the Author

YOKO TAWADA was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German and has received the Akutagawa, Lessing, Kleist, Noma, Adelbert von Chamisso and Tanizaki prizes as well as the Goethe Medal. She is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear and The Last Children of Tokyo. In 2018 her novel The Emissary won the National Book Award.

MARGARET MITSUTANI is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Kenzaburo Oe (Japan's 1994 Nobel Prize laureate).

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