Living in Germany, the narrator receives signs of a friend who was thought to have been lost in the earthquake, and the circle of memory and loss slowly widens. It is a quiet novel that links a distant place with the time after disaster.

Living in Germany, the narrator receives signs of a friend who was thought to have been lost in the earthquake, and the circle of memory and loss slowly widens.

A girl who has lost her memory arrives on an island with a different language and order, and begins searching for her place there. The novel has a strong imaginative focus on language, community, and bodily perception.

A girl who has lost her memory arrives on an island with a different language and order, and begins searching for her place there.