Scattered All Over the Earth

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Pub Date 2 Jun 2022 | Archive Date 4 Jul 2022

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A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference, and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist

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 masterwork by Yoko Tawada.

A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference, and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist

Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having...


Advance Praise

‘Every Yoko Tawada novel pulls the ground out from under us, but gives us new senses in return. Scattered All Over the Earth […] is that rare work of art: something entirely new in the world’ Madeleine Thien

‘Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things’ Sara Baume

‘Every Yoko Tawada novel pulls the ground out from under us, but gives us new senses in return. Scattered All Over the Earth […] is that rare work of art: something entirely new in the world’ ...


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