Scattered All Over The Earth

Scattered All Over The Earth

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Scattered All Over The Earth
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Scattered All Over The Earth

Scattered All Over The Earth

Authors: Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani

Publisher: Granta

ISBN: 9781783789122
Rs. 599.00
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Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.” Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): “homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language.”

As she searches for anyone who can still speak her mother tongue, Hiruko soon makes new friends. Her troupe travels to France, encountering an umami cooking competition; a dead whale; an ultra-nationalist named Breivik; unrequited love; Kakuzo robots; red herrings; uranium; an Andalusian matador. Episodic and mesmerizing scenes flash vividly along, and soon they’re all next off to Stockholm.

Tagged with: fiction / international / Japanese / Margaret Mitsutani / scifi / specfic / translation / written and translated by women / Yoko Tawada

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