A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference, and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist
YOKO TAWADA 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 The Emissary won the National
Book Award.
MARGARET MITSUTANI is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Kenzaburo Oe
(Japan's 1994 Nobel Prize laureate).
Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things
*Sara Baume, author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither*
Magnificently strange
*NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE*
Every Yoko Tawada novel pulls the ground out from under us, but
gives us new senses in return. Scattered All Over the Earth, a
novel of created, found, remembered and possible languages - of
what lies at the very heart of listening - is that rare work of
art: something entirely new in the world
*Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing*
Tawada writes lightly about serious matters in this memorable,
magical tale
*Guardian*
Tawada has certainly achieved the goal of highlighting the
arbitrariness or even meaninglessness of borders, nations and fixed
identities, and of holding up the inequalities of western
immigration policies to scrutiny. The craftmanship of Scattered All
Over the Earth is impeccable and every bit as inventive as fans of
Yoko Tawada's work have come to expect
*TLS*
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