Scattered All Over the Earth

Resumen del libro

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 sui generis masterwork by Yoko Tawada.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Yoko Tawadax{0026}lt;/strong (Tokio, 1960) se trasladó a Hamburgo cuando tenía veintidós años y se instaló en Berlín en 2006. Escribe tanto en japonés, su lengua materna, como en alemán. Ha publicado novelas, cuentos, piezas teatrales y ensayos, y ha recibido numerosos galardones, como el Premio Akutagawa, el Tanizaki, el Adelbert von Chamisso y la Medalla Goethe. En Anagrama ha publicado x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Memorias de una osa polarx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (Premio Warwick para Obras Traducidas Escritas por Mujeres): Lean con un lápiz en la mano. No dejarán de subrayar frases inteligentísimas (x{0026}lt;em El Mundox{0026}lt;/em ).x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El emisariox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong ganó el National Book Award en 2018.x{0026}lt;/p