Cold Enough For Snow

Author: Jessica Au

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Price : 32.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781913097769
Publisher : Fitzcarraldo Editions
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Publication date : 01 January 2022
Dimensions : 197mm x 125mm x 197mm
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Pages : 104
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Description

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 cafés 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.

Awards

Winner 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award in the Fiction and Overall categories.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Miles Franklin Award.

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