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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781925818925
Year: 2022
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
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The inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, an international biennial award established by Giramondo (Australia), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and New Directions (USA). Cold Enough for Snow was unanimously chosen from over 1500 entries.
A novel about the relationshipbetween life and art, and betweenlanguage and the inner world – howdifficult it is to speak truly, to know and be known by another, and howmuch power and friction lies in the unsaid, especially between a mother and daughter.
A young woman has arranged a holiday with her mother in Japan. They travel by train, visit galleries and churches chosen for their art and architecture, eat together in small cafés and restaurants and walk along the canals at night, on guard against the autumn rain and the prospect of snow. All the while, they talk, or seem to talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes and objects; about the mother’s family in Hong Kong, and the daughter’s own formative experiences. But uncertainties abound. How much is spoken between them, how much is thought but unspoken?
Cold Enough for Snow is a reckoning and an elegy: with extraordinary skill, Au creates an enveloping atmosphere that expresses both the tenderness between mother and daughter, and the distance between them.
'So calm and clear and deep, I wished it would flow on forever.' — Helen Garner
'Rarely have I been so moved, reading a book: I love the quiet beauty of
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781925818925
Year: 2022
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Description:
The inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, an international biennial award established by Giramondo (Australia), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and New Directions (USA). Cold Enough for Snow was unanimously chosen from over 1500 entries.
A novel about the relationshipbetween life and art, and betweenlanguage and the inner world – howdifficult it is to speak truly, to know and be known by another, and howmuch power and friction lies in the unsaid, especially between a mother and daughter.
A young woman has arranged a holiday with her mother in Japan. They travel by train, visit galleries and churches chosen for their art and architecture, eat together in small cafés and restaurants and walk along the canals at night, on guard against the autumn rain and the prospect of snow. All the while, they talk, or seem to talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes and objects; about the mother’s family in Hong Kong, and the daughter’s own formative experiences. But uncertainties abound. How much is spoken between them, how much is thought but unspoken?
Cold Enough for Snow is a reckoning and an elegy: with extraordinary skill, Au creates an enveloping atmosphere that expresses both the tenderness between mother and daughter, and the distance between them.
'So calm and clear and deep, I wished it would flow on forever.' — Helen Garner
'Rarely have I been so moved, reading a book: I love the quiet beauty of