Cold Enough for Snow
Author(s): Jessica Au
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes, and objects, about family, distance, and memory.
But uncertainties abound. Who is really speaking here--is it only the daughter? And what is the real reason behind this elliptical, perhaps even spectral journey?
At once a careful reckoning and an elegy, Cold Enough for Snow questions whether any of us speak a common language, which dimensions can contain love, and what claim we have to truly know another's inner world.
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Selected from more than 1,500 entries, Cold Enough for Snow won the Novel Prize, a new, biennial award offered by New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK), and Giramondo (Australia), for any novel written in English that explores and expands the possibilities of the form.
**Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2023, Fiction**
Winner Prime Minister's Prize for Fiction 2023
**Winner, Victorian Prize for Literature 2023**
**Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Award 2023**
**Shortlisted, ABIA Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year**
**Shortlisted, 2023 BookPeople Adult Fiction Book of the Year**
Jessica Au is a writer based in Melbourne, Australia. Cold Enough for Snow won the inaugural Novel Prize, run by Giramondo, New Directions and Fitzcarraldo Editions, and is set to be published in twenty countries.
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- : Giramondo Publishing Company
- : Giramondo Publishing Co
- : 01 October 2021
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Special Fields
- : Jessica Au
- : FA
- : 112
- : 823.92
- : 1
- : Paperback