Description
In a not-too-distant future where Japan has vanished and its people survive only in fragments, Hiruko—once a citizen and now a climate refugee—teaches immigrant children in Denmark using her invented, Pan-Scandinavian language, Panska. As she searches for others who still speak her mother tongue, her quest unfolds through a roaming cast of companions and episodic encounters that blend comedy with unease: strange competitions, uncanny discoveries, political shadows, and the stubborn persistence of memory. Across surreal travel scenes and shifting identities, the novel explores language as both refuge and weapon, asking what it means to belong when borders dissolve and history is rewritten. With Tawada’s signature wit and mind-bending lyricism, this cheerfully dystopian journey feels at once playful and urgent, charting how new worlds can be made from what’s been scattered all over the earth.
Available Editions
paperback
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published Jan 1, 2022
227 pages
ISBN: 9780811229296
paperback
Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
Published Jan 1, 2022
ISBN: 9780811229289
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Details
First Published
2022
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Scattered All over the Earth by Yoko Tawada.