{"product_id":"scattered-all-over-the-earth","title":"Scattered All Over the Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWelcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as 'the land of sushi'.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHiruko, 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eno time to learn three different languages. might mix up. insufficient space in brain. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eso made new language. homemade language most Scandinavian people understand'. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 bull fight. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEpisodic, vividly imagined and mesmerising, \u003cem\u003eScattered All Over the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e is another sui generis masterwork by Yoko Tawada.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yoko Tawada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43019473355009,"sku":"9781783789122","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-2023-10-13T144324.122.png?v=1697204616","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/scattered-all-over-the-earth","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}