Cold Enough for Snow [electronic resource]
Au, Jessica2022
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A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes, and objects, about family, distance, and memory. But uncertainties abound. Who is really speaking here – is it only the daughter? And what is the real reason behind this elliptical, perhaps even spectral journey? At once a careful reckoning and an elegy, Cold Enough for Snow questions whether any of us speak a common language, which dimensions can contain love, and what claim we have to truly know another's inner world.
Selected from more than 1,500 entries, Cold Enough for Snow won the Novel Prize, a new, biennial award offered by Fitzcarraldo Editions, New Directions (US) and Giramondo (Australia), for any novel written in English that explores and expands the possibilities of the form.
Main title:
Cold Enough for Snow [electronic resource] / Jessica Au
Author:
Au, Jessica, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Jessica Au is a writer based in Melbourne, Australia. Cold Enough for Snow won the inaugural Novel Prize, run by Giramondo, New Directions and Fitzcarraldo Editions, and is set to be published in twenty countries.
ISBN:
9781913097776
Language:
English
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BRN:
4054785
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