![]() Episodic, vividly imagined and mesmerising, Scattered All Over the Earth is another sui generis masterwork by Yoko Tawada. ![]() 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. ![]() 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. homemade language most Scandinavian people understand’. Yoko Tawada’s Scattered All Over the Earth is a cheerful dystopian novel that celebrates inventiveness, possibilities, and human connections. ![]() no time to learn three different languages. SCATTERED ALL OVER THE EARTH by Yoko Tawada translated by Margaret Mitsutani RELEASE DATE: MaIt could be the end of the world as we know it, but Tawada’s vision of the future is intriguing. 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. ![]() Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as ‘the land of sushi’. Yoko Tawada Scattered All Over the Earth Paperback 1 March 2022 by Yoko Tawada (Author), Margaret Mitsutani (Translator) 96 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 13.29 Read with Our Free App Paperback 32.05 1 Used from 33.16 11 New from 30. ![]()
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