Never Quite Home: 2 Incomplete Answers for a World in Flux
Dueling Dystopias: Reviewing Yoko Tawada’s ‘Scattered All Over the Earth’ Trilogy and ‘The Emissary’
Aboard a mail boat sailing the Baltic Sea, the multinational travelers sit down for dinner. The Indian’s place is set with the Indian flag, the German’s with the German flag, the Greenlander’s with the Greenlandic flag, and the Dane’s with the Danish flag. But the two Japanese aboard? There is no flag for them. “The land of sushi,” as Japan is called in…
