WHEN Calypso King Harry Belafonte sang the hit “Island in the Sun”, he might not be attributing it only to his beloved Jamaican, but to all sun-kissed, windswept islands across the tropics ...

Although Tawada’s novel eventually missed out on the prize, the English translation was chosen by Time magazine as one of its 100 Must-Read Books ... Shotō (Islands of the Sun), which concluded ...