Archipelago of the Sun

Reviews

"Tawada is immune to the seduction of ideal worlds. Even when speculative, her fiction still manages to operate in the world that we actually inhabit: one characterized by slippages, ambiguity, and a history of territorial entanglements that began long before twentieth-century globalism—entanglements that, in fact, go back so far that they might be one of the few things coterminous with being human." — The Baffler

"Tawada’s playful and deeply inventive new novel … succeeds brilliantly, sketching a grim global dilemma with the sort of wit and humanism that Italo Calvino, in a discussion of lightness in literature, described as ‘weightless gravity.’" — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker

"Even one’s mother tongue is a translation." — Yoko Tawada

"Proof that thoughtful novels of ideas can be fun as well as provocative." — Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"Tawada again proffers linguistic illuminations." — Terry Hong, Booklist

"Consider this a recommendation for the whole series, frankly. Its three slim books craft a winningly genial kind of dystopia, bleak and earnest in equal measure." — NPR

"A strange, meandering, but compelling tale that combines pin-sharp interpersonal observations with an ambiguous, blurry backdrop." — Locus Magazine