Scattered All Over the Earth | 誠品線上

地球にちりばめられて

內容簡介

內容簡介 由於天災和極端氣候的影響，世界各地開始出現因為天災而出現的難民潮，許多國家在這次浩劫中消失了，包括日本。整個日本國土已深深沉沒在海中，剩下數量稀少的原日本人四散在歐洲各處，而他們消失的國家，則被外人在模糊的回憶裡被統稱為「壽司之地」。倖存者之一的比留子(Hiruko)在丹麥教導移民小孩們最新的語言─Panska，來自世界各地的移民也改變的地域的文化與邊界，比留子一邊教書一邊上節目，為的就是尋找和她一樣，仍記得過去母語的人，意外開啟一趟神秘的旅程…*From the author of The Last Children of Tokyo*A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist.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'.Hiruko 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."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Yoko TawadaYoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German, and has published several books-stories, novels, poems, plays, essays-in both languages. She has received numerous awards for her writing including the Akutagawa Prize, the Kleist-Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, and the Goethe Medal. New Directions publishes her story collections Where Europe Begins (with a Preface by Wim Wenders) and Facing the Bridge, and her novel of Catherine Deneuve obsession, The Naked Eye.

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