We first glimpse Hiruko, the protagonist of Yoko Tawada’s novel Scattered All Over the Earth, on a Danish television program about people whose countries no longer exist. She came to Denmark as a student, intending to stay for a year, but shortly before she was meant to go home her country—an unnamed archipelago located vaguely […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/03/09/the-friction-of-language-scattered-all-over-the-earth-tawada/