Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada by Tawada, Yoko

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.” Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): “homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language.” As she searches for anyone who can still speak her mother tong