{"product_id":"scattered-all-the-earth","title":"Scattered All Over The Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHiruko 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yoko Tawada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55734809231738,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0003\/6778\/8068\/files\/44AD7DEF-9BA5-4234-82AF-8665EF238E5D.jpg?v=1754746133","url":"https:\/\/raremags.co.uk\/products\/scattered-all-the-earth","provider":"Rare Mags","version":"1.0","type":"link"}