{"product_id":"scattered-all-over-the-earth-9780811229289","title":"Scattered All Over the Earth","description":"Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as \"the land of sushi.\" Hiruko, its 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. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language.\" \u003cp\u003eAs she searches for anyone who can still speak her mother tongue, Hiruko soon makes new friends. Her troupe travels to France, encountering an umami cooking competition; a dead whale; an ultra-nationalist named Breivik; unrequited love; Kakuzo robots; red herrings; uranium; an Andalusian matador. Episodic and mesmerizing scenes flash vividly along, and soon they're all next off to Stockholm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith its intrepid band of companions, \u003cem\u003eScattered All Over the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e (the first novel of a trilogy) may bring to mind \u003cem\u003eAlice's Adventures in Wonderland\u003c\/em\u003e or a surreal \u003cem\u003eWind in the Willows\u003c\/em\u003e, but really is just another sui generis Yoko Tawada masterwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTawada, Yoko:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eYoko Tawada\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German and has received the Akutagawa, Lessing, Kleist, Noma, Adelbert von Chamisso and Tanizaki prizes as well as the Goethe Medal. In 2018 her novel \u003cem\u003eThe Emissary\u003c\/em\u003e won the National Book Award.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMitsutani, Margaret:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMargaret Mitsutani\u003c\/strong\u003e is a translator of Yoko Tawada (sharing her National Book Award) and Kenzaburo Oe (Japan's 1994 Nobel Prize laureate).","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50593649885458,"sku":"9780811229289","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e8fa1cee-2aa0-419d-bdad-604109fe2c8c.jpg?v=1732119474","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/scattered-all-over-the-earth-9780811229289","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}