02115cam a22003378i 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000180008802000310010602000270013704000280016404100130019204200080020505000260021308200190023910000360025824000410029424500840033525000190041926300090043826400580044730000150050533600260052033700280054633800270057452011100060165500280171170000380173922242988OSt20231009155712.0210917s2022    nyu           000 1 eng    a  2021044581  a9781783789122  a9780811229289q(paperback)  z9780811229296q(ebook)  aDLCbengerdacDLCdDLC1 aenghjpn  apcc00aPL862.A85bC4713 202200a895.635bTAW/S1 aTawada, Yōko,d1960-eauthor.10aChikyuu ni chiribamerarete.lEnglish10aScattered all over the earth /cYoko Tawada ; translated by Margaret Mitsutani.  aFirst edition.  a2203 1aNew York :bNew Directions Paperbook Original,c2022.  a219 pages   atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its 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. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language." As she searches for anyone who can still speak her mother tongue, Hiruko soon makes new friends. Her troupe travels to France, encountering an umami cooking competition; a dead whale; an ultra-nationalist named Breivik; unrequited love; Kakuzo robots; red herrings; uranium; an Andalusian matador. Episodic and mesmerizing scenes flash vividly along, and soon they're all next off to Stockholm. With its intrepid band of companions, Scattered All Over the Earth (the first novel of a trilogy) may bring to mind Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or a surreal Wind in the Willows, but really is just another sui generis Yoko Tawada masterwork"--cProvided by publisher. 7aScience fiction.2lcgft1 aMitsutani, Margaret,etranslator.