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ISBN10: 1963108302
ISBN13: 9781963108309
Publisher: Tin House
Published: Aug 19 2025
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781963108309
Publisher: Tin House
Published: Aug 19 2025
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Natalie Bakopoulos's Archipelago is a striking, haunting novel that offers meditations on the slippery borders of nations, languages, middle age, and the self.
Along the way to a translation writing residency on the Dalmatian coast, Archipelago's unnamed narrator has an unsettling, aggressive encounter with a man on a ferry, which sets off a series of strange events. At the residency, she reunites with Luka, an old friend who seems to have included a version of her in his novel. They strike up a romantic relationship as she continues her translation work.
Along the way to a translation writing residency on the Dalmatian coast, Archipelago's unnamed narrator has an unsettling, aggressive encounter with a man on a ferry, which sets off a series of strange events. At the residency, she reunites with Luka, an old friend who seems to have included a version of her in his novel. They strike up a romantic relationship as she continues her translation work.
The hazy summer stretches on until, after a sudden shift, she embarks upon an impulsive road trip back to Greece, crossing borders. Spare and lyrical, with subversions of the Odyssey and its singular Ithaca, Archipelago charts a wending journey back to the narrator's family house--not simply back to a self and home, but beyond it.
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