{"product_id":"archipelago-isbn-9781963108309","title":"Archipelago","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatalie Bakopoulos’s \u003ci\u003eArchipelago\u003c\/i\u003e is a striking, haunting novel that offers meditations on the slippery borders of nations, languages, middle age, and the self.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe 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 \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e and its singular Ithaca, \u003ci\u003eArchipelago\u003c\/i\u003e charts a wending journey back to the narrator’s family house—not simply back to a self and home, but beyond it.\n\"A novel of turnings; its narrator knows how to pause and gaze at the horizon, without the need for naming what lies beyond her sight, this moment. ….Bakopoulos’s narrator [is] a woman on the verge of a horizon she can’t see, and happier for it\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lyric…. moving, meditative novel about language, identity and a search for self-understanding…. moves in waves of beautiful imagery and well-crafted sentences, and beckons the reader to linger.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook Page\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautiful novels are common, but elegant novels are rare, and \u003ci\u003eArchipelago \u003c\/i\u003eis elegant in its honesty, its quiet wisdom, and its undaunted reckoning with the limitations of the stories we tell ourselves.... a singular, meditative, and absorbing read.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTupelo Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A haunting debut with echoes of \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArchipelago\u003c\/i\u003e strikes a beautiful balance between meditation and mystery.\" —\u003cb\u003eLit Hub, Most Anticipated Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] invitingly confiding tone, lovely descriptions of her surroundings, and thoughtful reflections on translation, swimming, aging, borders, and male menace.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Archipelago\u003c\/i\u003e is a gorgeous, haunting novel about translation, narrative, and the slippage between selves: who we are and who others believe us to be. We follow our narrator-traveler on her dreamlike journey, from one achingly beautiful setting to another, from one memory to another, tantalized and unsettled by her every encounter. With this novel Bakopoulos weaves a spell and a mystery and makes something wholly her own.\" —\u003cb\u003eLydia Kiesling, author of \u003ci\u003eMobility\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatalie Bakopoulos\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eScorpionfish\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Green Shore\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNinth Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVQR\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlimmer Train\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMississippi Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMQR\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eO. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and various other publications. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, has received fellowships from the Camargo and MacDowell foundations and the Sozopol Fiction Seminars, and was a 2015 Fulbright Fellow in Athens, Greece. She’s an assistant professor at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her book reviews have regularly appeared in the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, and she's a contributing editor to \u003ci\u003eFiction Writers Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She’s on the faculty of Writing Workshops in Greece.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48232933818597,"sku":"NP9781963108309","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781963108309.jpg?v=1767721740","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/archipelago-isbn-9781963108309","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}