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Scattered All Over the Earth

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Scattered All Over the Earth

2022 · Yōko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani

Fiction

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7.6
#33 of 348 books
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Too few to say
Range of opinion
15.510

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A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2018 National Book Award 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…

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