{"product_id":"scattered-all-over-the-earth-by-yoko-tawada-9781783789122","title":"Scattered All Over the Earth","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Last Children of Tokyo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference, and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll 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 bullfight. Episodic, vividly imagined, and mesmerising, \u003cem\u003eScattered All Over the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e is another sui generis masterwork by Yoko Tawada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072658227436,"sku":"9781783789122","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2506053482823.jpg?v=1765124116","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/scattered-all-over-the-earth-by-yoko-tawada-9781783789122","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}