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Welcome 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'. 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. 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, Scattered All Over the Earth is another sui generis masterwork by Yoko Tawada.

Магазин: Лабиринт

ISBN: 9781783789030
Автор: Tawada Yoko
Издательство: Granta Publication
Год: 2022
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Категория: Фантастика и ужасы на английском языке