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Archipelago

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Archipelago

Natalie Bakopoulos’ 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.

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.

Archipelago
by Natalie Bakopoulos

  • Publication Date: August 19, 2025
  • Genres: Fiction, Women's Fiction
  • Paperback: 248 pages
  • Publisher: Tin House Books
  • ISBN-10: 1963108302
  • ISBN-13: 9781963108309