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Speaking in tongues

SCATTERED ALL OVER THE EARTH, by Yoko Tawada (Granta, $32.99)

anguage and identity loss power the heart of  a dystopian novel by Yoko Tawada and translated from Japanese into English by Margaret Mitsutani. Climate refugee Hiroki’s entire country has gone, due to an unspecified environmental calamity, and although it’s been many years since her arrival in Europe, she has yet to meet another Japanese

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