Cold enough for snow / Jessica Au.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Au, Jessica, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Tokyo (Japan)--Fiction.

Tokyo (Japan).

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

95 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First New Directions edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.

Summary:

"A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes, and objects, about family, distance, and memory. But uncertainties abound. Who is really speaking here-is it only the daughter? And what is the real reason behind this elliptical, perhaps even spectral journey? At once a careful reckoning and an elegy, Cold Enough for Snow questions whether any of us speak a common language, which dimensions can contain love, and what claim we have to truly know another's inner world. Selected from more than 1,500 entries, Cold Enough for Snow won the Novel Prize, a new, biennial award offered by New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK), and Giramondo (Australia), for any novel written in English that explores and expands the possibilities of the form"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"NDP1522" -- Spine.

Won the Novel Prize.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780811231558

0811231550

OCLC:

1268544321