All these characters take turns narrating chapters, which feature an umami cooking competition a dead whale an ultra- nationalist named Breivik Kakuzo robots uranium and an Andalusian bull fight. Hiruko soon makes new friends to join her in her travels searching for anyone who can still speak her mother tongue: Knut, a graduate student in linguistics, who is fascinated by her Panska Akash, an Indian man who lives as a woman, wearing a red sari Nanook, an Eskimo from Greenland, first mistaken as another refugee from the land of sushi and Nora, who works at the Karl Marx House in Trier. homemade language most Scandinavian people understand’. no time to learn three different languages. Hiruko, a former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): ‘homemade language. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as ‘the land of sushi’.
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