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Scattered All Over the Earth

地球にちりばめられて · Chikyū ni chiribamerarete

Yoko Tawada (多和田葉子, born 1960)

Translated by Margaret Mitsutani

English editions

In English

  • Scattered All Over the Earth

    Granta Books · United Kingdom · 2023 · Paperback

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  • Scattered All Over the Earth

    New Directions · United States · 1 March 2022 · Paperback

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  • Scattered All Over the Earth

    Granta Books · United Kingdom · 2022 · 224 pages

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Hiruko was abroad as a student when the island nation she came from vanished. To survive on the European continent she has invented her own language, Panska. A television appearance brings her together with Knut, a young man who studies linguistics, and the two set off to look for someone, somewhere in the world, who shares her native language, at a time when anybody may end up a migrant.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
309 pages in the original
Genres
Speculative, Migration (assigned by AI)
First published
2018 by Kodansha
Author's age
58 when first published
ISBN

9784062210225 (original)

9780811229289 (New Directions, United States)

9781783789030 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)

9781783789122 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)

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