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Scattered All Over the Earth (Paperback)
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Scattered All Over the Earth (Paperback)
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*From the author of The Last Children of Tokyo* A mind-expanding,
cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it
means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist. Welcome
to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea,
is now remembered as 'the land of sushi'. 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. no country to stay in.
three countries I experienced. no time to learn three different
languages. might mix up. insufficient space in brain. so made new
language. homemade language most Scandinavian people understand'.
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.
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. Episodic, vividly imagined and mesmerising, Scattered All
Over the Earth is another sui generis masterwork by Yoko Tawada.
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