{"product_id":"scattered-all-over-the-earth-by-yoko-tawada-author-margaret-mitsutani-translator","title":"Scattered all over the earth by Yoko Tawada (Author) Margaret Mitsutani (Translator)","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWelcome 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'.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHiruko 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eScattered All Over the Earth\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis another sui generis masterwork by Yoko Tawada.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Grey.com.np","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46496385237284,"sku":"","price":1120.0,"currency_code":"NPR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/3100\/3428\/files\/81Qh5C7JzbL._AC_UF894_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1692170113","url":"https:\/\/grey.com.np\/products\/scattered-all-over-the-earth-by-yoko-tawada-author-margaret-mitsutani-translator","provider":"Grey.com.np","version":"1.0","type":"link"}