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4 de feb. de 2022 · Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au, Fitzcarraldo Editions £9.99, 104 pages/New Directions $14.95, 144 pages. Join our online book group on Facebook at ...
2 de sept. de 2022 · Cold Enough for Snow is hellbent on driving home a sense of gauziness. Like it’s spiritual counterpart, the external world is, to Au’s narrator, an ontologically lacy thing, where rain is always “fine”, and light is always “milky”, and an all-pervading lenity scumbles the rougher surfaces of reality.
21 de mar. de 2022 · Jessica Au’s second book, Cold Enough for Snow, is circular and ineffable; not long, but deep. Inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, this story of connection, separation, and re-traced steps holds echoes of humans existing in time, space, and memory. Au’s writing is intertextual, subtextual, and sharply understated, reminding readers that it ...
4 de feb. de 2022 · FICTION: Cold Enough for Snow, Jessica Au, Giramondo, $24.95. Fernando Pessoa said you didn’t need to travel to get to know human beings. He believed that it was all in the head.
1 de ene. de 2022 · Winner of the Novel Prize 2020 Cold Enough for Snow begins as a hypnotic travelogue—soothing, almost meditative in its cadences and imagery of a rainy Tokyo—and develops into a haunting, poignant elegy. To me, ‘Ishiguro-esque’ is the best descriptor for this slim volume. It reminds me most of A Pale View of Hills and even the titles evoke a similar feeling, almost like a line of haiku.
15 de feb. de 2022 · 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. Read more Read less. Previous page.
10 de feb. de 2022 · Peter C. Baker writes about Jessica Au’s “Cold Enough for Snow,” a novel narrated by an introspective daughter who goes on a trip with her mother to Japan in search of something unknown.
